HERE WE GO AGAIN: U.S. Citizen Arrested in North Korea.

The arrested man, a Korean-American professor named Tony Kim, had been teaching at a university in Pyongyang set up by a Korean-American Christian businessman, two people familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Kim is the third known U.S. citizen to be detained by North Korea in recent months. Pyongyang last year sentenced Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, and Kim Dong-chul, a Korean-American businessman, to terms of 15 years and 10 years of hard labor, respectively.

A U.S. State Department spokesman on Sunday declined to comment on the case, citing privacy concerns, but said the department typically works with the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang when U.S. citizens are detained there.

Westerners should stay out of North Korea, period. Not only are they asking to be used as pawns by the Kim regime, but just by being there they also lend that foul government a legitimacy it doesn’t deserve.