{"id":568,"date":"2015-02-28T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/30\/us-envoys-mission-to-free-kenneth-bae-off-after-n-korea-rescinds-invitation\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T12:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T12:45:53","slug":"us-envoys-mission-to-free-kenneth-bae-off-after-n-korea-rescindsinvitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/568","title":{"rendered":"US envoy’s goal to free Kenneth Bae off after N. Korea rescinds&nbsp;invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AP\/status\/373456300015108096\r\n<p>Special envoy for North Korean real human rights problems, Bob King, was expected in&nbsp;Pyongyang right now to seek the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/29\/us-envoy-not-dennis-rodman-hopes-to-free-christian-missionary-kenneth-bae-from-north-korea-video\/\">Kenneth Bae, a Christian missionary who has been held in North Korea since November<\/a>. Bae was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor for committing &ldquo;hostile acts&rdquo; up against the country and has now experienced poor health.&nbsp;The AP reports that North Korea has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/N-Korea-cancels-visit-by-US-envoy-to-seek-Lynnwood-mans-release-221796681.html\">withdrawn the invitation<\/a>&nbsp;and King will go back to Washington.<\/p>\r\n<p>State dept. spokeswoman Marie Harf stated the U.S. is “surprised and dissatisfied.”<\/p>\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/PlanetUrbanite\/status\/373459859213012992\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sunnyright\/status\/373459864770473984\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JohnEkdahl\/status\/373460082065149953\r\n<p>Twitchy will monitor this developing tale and update as details become available.<\/p>\r\n<p>Find out more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/30\/us-envoys-mission-to-free-kenneth-bae-off-after-n-korea-rescinds-invitation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/30\/us-envoys-mission-to-free-kenneth-bae-off-after-n-korea-rescinds-invitation\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AP\/status\/373456300015108096 Special envoy for North Korean real human rights problems, Bob King, was expected in&nbsp;Pyongyang right now to seek the release of Kenneth Bae, a Christian missionary who has been held in North Korea since November. Bae was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor for committing &ldquo;hostile acts&rdquo; up against the country and has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US envoy’s goal to free Kenneth Bae off after N. Korea rescinds&nbsp;invitation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/14250951596611-kenneth-bae.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}