Police stop US boys protest for Koreas peace in China

Police stop US boys protest for Koreas peace in China

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A 13-year-old US boy, who is campaigning to turn the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea into a peace park, was released from Chinese detention on Monday along with his mother, after staging a brief protest near Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Jonathan Lee unfurled a sign saying "peace treaty" and "nuclear free DMZ children's peace forest" as he stood outside the Forbidden City earlier in the day. A man presumed to be a plainclothes officer grabbed Lee's sign less than a minute later, and waved away journalists who had been contacted by Lee's family ahead of time. Lee an

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Wow.

I haven't seen this on the US MSM yet, kinds weird how Russia Today is covering it.

This takes balls, they were detained, and had to know they were going to be.

Like people who join the peace core and work to help people overseas... WE HAVE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA FOR YOU TO FIX FIRST!!!

Screw the rest of the world until our own people are not homeless and starving!

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I applaud the ambition, but I hope they weren't expecting a different outcome.

China is not known for tolerating this kind of thing.

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He is protesting in the wrong place.

Isn't he suppose to protest in Washington, last I checked, it is the US which doesn't want a peace treaty.

Ohh GOSH, I think this is the same kid that was supposed to visit N-Korea.

You don't go to China and protest anything in Tienanmen Square...ever. First off, staging a protest of anything in a foreign country is a bad idea. Secondly, it's Tienanmen Square...the history makes any protest there very likely to be quelled quickly. His mother really should have known better.