Since the N Korean players were supposedly under high security (to keep them from leaving) at the World Cup it got me to thinking...
Let's say the World Cup was in the U.S. and one N. Korean player made a phone call to the police saying that he is being held hostage and wants to leave the hotel. What would we do?
I've heard of plenty of guys sneak out of the Olympic Village back in the old Cold War days but in a Western country did they really need to sneak out? Wouldn't the host country be required to enforce its false imprisonment laws or is there some type of special international law that would be applied?
I recognize that the player's family could be at risk and that is probably the main concern for the player...