USAF Picks Up American in North Korea - Roll Call

USAF Picks Up American in North Korea

By Chris Riback

Posted October 21, 2014 at 4:47pm

The Air Force Times reports that “an Air Force executive jet and aircrew from Joint Base Pearl-Harbor, Hickam, was tasked with landing in North Korea today and picking up an American prisoner who was released by the Pyongyang regime.”

“Detainee Jeffrey Fowle was released after almost six months on charges that he left a Bible in a nightclub. Associated Press photographers spotted the Air Force aircraft, which appeared by a C-40, at Pyongyang’s international airport.”

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