The last person known to have seen Sneddon is an innkeeper near Tiger Leaping Gorge, a famed but remote and dangerous area in western China.
He went missing barely a month after Pyongyang released Charles Jenkins, the American soldier who had defected to the North during the Korean War and had been one of a tiny number of Americans in the closed country. With his summer classes done, David and a classmate, George Bailey, went out to see some of the tourist sites of China. "We understand that this might not be the top of the American priority. Their thesis is that these associations suggested to the PRC and DPRK that David was participating in the underground railroad moving North Korean refugees across China. Reuel, David's sister, said that while she recognizes none of the theories have been verified, she wonders if the president will raise the issue. The site may not work properly if you don't If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit Press J to jump to the feed. Soon after the South Korean reports emerged, the U.S. House passed a resolution calling on the Department of State and the intelligence community to continue investigating what happened to David, including considering the possibility he was abducted by North Korea. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts I'm not sure if people even care," Bailey said, adding that he feels powerless.
Even if someone showed me a T-shirt, that would mean something." COURTESY OF THE SNEDDON FAMILY VIA THE WASHINGTON POST get reddit premium. The following year, a Japanese group that works on abduction cases said it had Chinese documents proving that a 23- or 24-year-old American man had been arrested in Yunnan. State Department spokeswoman Katina Adams said it had been in touch with officials from the South Korean and Japanese governments about these claims and the organizations making them, and had also reached out to North Korea. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. A Brigham Young student disappeared in 2004 while hiking on a Mormon mission. Is Trump even going to ask?" Did these associations make David suspect? After Bailey returned to the United States, David continued to Tiger Leaping Gorge, a scenic area in Yunnan in southern China. "Thus far, we have not been able to verify any information suggesting that David Sneddon was abducted from China by North Korean officials or is alive in North Korea, but we will continue our efforts to search for any verifiable information," she said.
They were numbers 10 and 11 out of 11 children, and were close growing up. A former Seoul missionary companion also stayed with David in Beijing for 3-5 days awaiting a return flight to the U.S.A.The former companion, then a student at Duke University, was studying the problems of refugees exiting from North Korea into northern China. "I'm thinking it's a fair question to pose," she said, noting that Jenkins, after he was released from North Korea, wrote "anything is possible" in that country.
And then he simply disappeared. Moved by their quest for answers and the evidence they’ve collected, the Sneddons’ journey has now led to an unlikely place: the chambers of Congress. “I … WithoutATrace join leave 16,662 readers. It's a question that the Sneddon family has been asking for more than 14 years, since the 24-year-old Brigham Young University student went missing while hiking in China. There are moments when I will do something or hear a song with that reminds me of Dave," she said. He was asked to leave PRC after requesting a visa to go into DPRK. David Sneddon, shown in 1999 at a training center, went missing in 2004 while hiking in China. And it's a question that they hope President Donald Trump will ask North Korean leader Kim Jong Un PROVO — Brigham Young University student David Sneddon disappeared somewhere in China last month and is now the subject of search efforts by family members and Chinese and American officials. After an investigation several weeks later Chinese authorities concluded that Sneddon had died somewhere on the treacherous trail… but his family thinks otherwise. Others have suggested a far more sinister motive, namely, state sponsored abduction for geo-political purposes including espionage.