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North Korea Arrests US Citizen


North Korea Arrests US Citizen
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North Korea arrested a US citizen for "hostile activities", Pyongyang's state media said Friday, bringing the total number of Americans held by the reclusive regime to three.


North Korea Arrests US Citizen
The official Korean Central News Agency [KCNA] said the man was being questioned, identifying him in Korean.

"US citizen in custody for committing anti-DPRK [North Korea] hostile activities", KCNA said in the headline of a brief dispatch.

The reporter further said: "The US Citizen, who entered the DPRK on April 29 as a tourist, engaged in activities that were in breach of DPRK's laws", the report said.
The man is the third US citizen known to be currently detained by the North.

The two others include 24-year-old Matthew Todd Miller, who was arrested in April after he apparently ripped up his visa at immigration and demanded asylum in the communist state.
Kenneth Bae, described by a North Korean court as a militant Christian evangelist, is also being held in the North after he was arrested in November 2012 and sentenced to 15 years' hard labor on charges of seeking to topple the government.

Last month the US government issued a fresh warning against all travel by US citizens to North Korea, saying that even joining a tour would fail to protect them from arbitrary arrest.

The United States has no diplomatic or consular relations with the North.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team