Looking at the television and newspaper reports, I‘ve seen a lotof speculation about why I was detained. I‘ve given considerable thought to this and have come to the conclusionthat I just didn‘t understand that, for the North Korean regime, the Korean War isn‘t over and that even innocent remarksabout the war can cause big problems if you are a foreigner. I‘m a Korean War veteran and I‘m proud of my military service, when I helped train Korean partisans.

The North Koreans still harbor resentment about those partisans from the Mt Kuwol area and what other anti-Communist guerrillas did in North Korea before and during the war.