Mr. Gomes was released from a North Korean prison this week after former president Jimmy Carter visited that country seeking Gnomes' release. It is speculated that Gomes may have crossed into North Korea in protest of another American arrested there a month earlier. He may have had his own agenda but his reasons will be up to him to state.
Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for illegally entering the country. Gomes' relatives have declined to say much about him or his situation, though they pleaded for his release on humanitarian grounds after North Korea's state-run media reported last month that he'd attempted suicide.
North Korea has a lot to learn from the United States. To reach our humanitarian standards, mr. Gomes should have been provided with a job, an apartment, food stamps and welfare payments, and free dental and medical care. And if any North Korean officials didn't like the fact that he was there then the President of North Korea could have filed a lawsuit against them like we do here in America.
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