David Sneddon, a college student that disappeared in 2004 during a trip to China have been reported to have been spotted in North Korea, Yahoo News Japan reported on Friday. According to the report, the North Korea government, Kim Jong-un might have kidnapped him, so he could teach him English.
David was presumed dead after he vanished in Yunnan Province in western China when he was 24. Police at the time reported he was likely to have died while hiking in Tiger Leaping Gorge near the Jinsha River on 14 August 2004, but his body was never recovered.
The family of Sheddon now has a beam of hope, as the US department of state on Wednesday says they will begin searching for him in North Korea.
Choi Sun-yong, heads the Abductees’ Family Union, said that a source have confirmed that David was kidnapped to help Kim Jong-Un, who was heir to the country’s dictatorship at the time learn English
All through the years, Mr Sneddon’s parents, Roy and Kathleen, never believed he died falling into a river, they always believed he was kidnapped because of his fluency in Korean.