Long-missing U.S. student reportedly kidnapped in China in '04, forced to work for Kim Jong Un

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Long-missing U.S. student reportedly kidnapped in China in '04, forced to work for Kim Jong Un

An American college student David Sneddon, now 36 years old, who disappeared in China 12 years ago and was believed to have died was actually allegedly kidnapped and forced to work as Kim Jong Un's personal tutor in Pyongyang, where he still lives to this day, married with a wife and 2 children, according to a South Korean activist organization.
Sneddon, then a 24-year-old Brigham Young University student, disappeared in August 2004 while hiking in China’s Yunnan Province. Sneddon, who grew up in Nebraska, served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Korea before he disappeared.

When Chinese police and the U.S. Embassy could not find him, China said Sneddon likely fell to his death in Tiger Leaping Gorge, a report his parents did not believe plausible.