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.
The U.S. citizens are suspected of violating the country’s disaster and safety law in an area that was recently designated a risk zone, meaning activities deemed harmful to residents are banned, the official said….