Former US president Jimmy Carter will be departing for North Korea “within days”, on a mission to free Aijalon Gomes who was sentenced to 8 years prison for illegally crossing into the North with a Christian message of peace. Carter is performing this task as a private citizen and not in an official government capacity. This is similar to the scenario where Bill Clinton retrieved Laura Ling and Euna Lee around this time last year.
Source: Yahoo! News
