6 Americans Detained in South Korea for Trying to Send Rice, Bibles, Dollars to North: Police

The group allegedly tried to send thousands of bottles filled with the items by sea.
6 Americans Detained in South Korea for Trying to Send Rice, Bibles, Dollars to North: Police
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a handout photograph released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 30, 2025. KCNA/Reuters
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Six Americans were detained in South Korea on June 27 for allegedly attempting to send thousands of plastic bottles filled with rice, U.S. dollars, and Bibles to North Korea by sea, according to police.

The group had allegedly been trying to dispatch 1,300 bottles into the sea at a border island west of the South Korean capital, Seoul, toward North Korea when they were discovered by a military official patrolling the area, a police official at the Incheon Ganghwa Police Station said.