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The Christmas season gets people all sorts of delusional, forgetting how terrible and cruel the world really is. Well, here’s a reminder…an American missionary went missing on Christmas Day. The reason? He went to North Korea illegally yo deliver a Christmas card to Kim Jong Il.

The parents of an American missionary from Tucson, who went missing on Christmas Day and may be in North Korea, said they are hoping for good news about their son, who reportedly crossed illegally into the communist country on Friday and may have been arrested.

The parents of Robert Park, 28, moved from Arizona to Encinitas four years ago, they said in an interview Sunday night. His father Pyong Park, 68, said the family has been praying and hoping for the best, though they fear he was likely taken prisoner by North Korean authorities after crossing into the country from China over the frozen Tumen River on Christmas Day.

“We have to just patiently wait,” said Park, who had just returned from a church service in San Marcos to pray for his son’s safe return. “Wait and see and hope for the best.”

Park said his son did not advise him of his plans, but he did send him and his wife an e-mail Dec. 23 saying that “some great things are going to happen” and that he loved them.

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