Robert Koehler at The Marmot's Hole follows up on a series of posts looking at the plight [1] of the 23 Korean missionaries—now on hunger strike [2]—recently taken for hostage in Afghanistan in ‘My personal view on the current hostage crisis [3],’ an answer to his question: “why would 23 men and mostly women decide to go on a mission which most of them, despite the somewhat insane pictures taken at the airport, knew would be akin to a suicide mission?”
Korea: On the kidnapped Koreans
· Written by John Kennedy
Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, East Asia, Afghanistan, South Korea, International Relations, Religion, War & Conflict