In 1980, the United States (CIA) collaborated with Canadian officials to exit six Americans hiding in Iran. The six left the U.S. Embassy before the militant students who took over the building discovered them. The story was depicted in the film Argo.

Kenneth Bae, a Washingtonian, has been held captive by North Korea for 15 months. He is accused of crimes against the state. He was leading a tour group and arrested, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. He recently made a public statement - with media present – appealing to the U.S. to help win his release.

If Hollywood can create a cover story and exit six Americans out of Iran in 1980, can we not, ergo (therefore), gather some diplomatic brains together and create a story, an exit strategy, to take to North Korea and bring Kenneth Bae home? 

(S-R photo:American missionary Kenneth Bae speaks to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang, North Korea)

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