MAN FREED BY N. KOREA FOUND DEAD.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Less than a month after basking in the Thanksgiving Eve glow of release from North Korea, where he was held as a spy and threatened with execution, Evan Hunziker was found Wednesday morning in a run-down hotel here with a bullet in his head - dead of an apparent suicide. His death at age 26 may be only a footnote to an international incident, but he played the central role in a more common human drama. Sometimes, his sorrowful sor·row·ful adj. Affected with, marked by, causing, or expressing sorrow. See Synonyms at sad. sor  row·ful·ly adv. family members said Wednesday, it is easier to bring two nations back from a diplomatic standoff than it is to save a single life from a path of self-destruction. For though Hunziker was free of North Korea, he could not break away from an American criminal justice system in pursuit of him on three outstanding arrest warrants, or personal demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. of drugs and alcohol. ``I think Evan was afraid of going back to jail,'' his father, Edwin Hunziker, said in an interview in which he tried to explain his son's death. ``That, and the drugs.'' He was called a spy by North Korea, a missionary by himself, an alcoholic by his father and a fugitive by the Alaska court system The Alaska Court System is the unified, centrally administered, and totally state-funded judicial system for the State of Alaska. It has four levels of state courts: the Alaska Supreme Court, the Alaska Court of Appeals, the Alaska Superior Court, and the . Even by the old Cold War standards of cryptic spy stories, Hunziker's North Korean adventure was odd. On Aug. 24, he swam across the Yalu River Yalu River Chinese Yalu Jiang or Ya-lü Chiang Korean Amnok -kang River, eastern Asia, between northeastern China and North Korea. Some 491 mi (790 km) long, it rises on the northern border of North Korea, then flows to Korea Bay. from China into North Korea - naked and nearly drunk, he admitted after his release. Some farmers found him, then turned him over to the authorities. The North Koreans accused him of spying for South Korea. Hunziker's mother is from South Korea, and his father is a Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. veteran. The State Department and Hunziker vigorously denied the espionage allegations. The young American said he was in North Korea because he wanted to preach the gospel. He had gone to China as a missionary, he said, fleeing arrest warrants and his troubled past. But more likely, his father said Wednesday, he swam across the river on a dare. But if the swim was a youthful lark, it ultimately added to tension between the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and North Korea. At the same time Hunziker was being held, a North Korean submarine was found in South Korean waters, and the North was going into the cold months with an energy and food shortage. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Evan Hunziker Had troubled past |
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