Los Angeles: A Los Angeles airport spokeswoman says a commercial airplane carrying an American missionary who was detained in North Korea for 43 days has landed in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles says Robert Park arrived on a flight from Beijing on Saturday evening. Earlier in the day, he flew to the Chinese capital from Pyongyang.
The 28-year-old Korean-American crossed the frozen Tumen River from China into North Korea on Dec. 25. He was carrying letters calling on leader Kim Jong Il to close the country's notoriously brutal prison camps and step down from power--acts that could have risked execution in the hard-line communist country.
North Korea announced Friday that Park would be freed.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, February 07, 2010, 09:23