Here's a look at the newly released American citizens previously detained in North Korea. Next:Kim Dong Chul 2/6 Credit Kim Dong Chul Age: 62 Status: Released from incarceration. Sentence: 10 years in prison with hard labor. Arrest details: Kim Dong Chul was arrested in October 201...
Jeffrey Fowle, an American who was arrested in North Korea in May for leaving a Bible at his hotel, has been released and is on his way home to rejoin his family, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Tuesday. Unauthorized religious activity is forbidden by the totalitarian regime...
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a short report that the student, whom it identified as Warmbier Otto Frederick, was "arrested while perpetrating a hostile act," but it didn't explain the nature of the act. North Korea has sometimes listed English-language surnames fir...
Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song, two of the three Americans detained in North Korea, were detained last year when Trump was president. The third American detained in North Korea, Dong Chul Kim, was arrested in October 2015. He has been sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labor after bei...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American soldier has been arrested in Russia and accused of stealing, according to two U.S. officials. The soldier, who is not being identified, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to the United States. Instead...
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Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said the four were found in a wooden shack, where they were being guarded by a man who was arrested. Villarreal said the captive Americans had been moved around by their captors, and at one point were taken to a medical clinic “to create confusion and ...
In Texas, officers responding to a nosy neighbor's complaint interrupted two men having sex in their own apartment and promptly arrested them for sodomy. TheLawrence v. Texascase went all the way to the Supreme Court, which struck down Texas' sodomy law. For the first time in U.S. ...
000 arrested by the end of April. Japanese sources claim that there were “only” 553 killed and 12,000 arrested, along with 8 killed and 158 wounded among the Japanese security forces. Regardless of the numbers, the Japanese colonial government responded with great brutality, with beatings in...
North Koreain the past has held arrested American citizens for an extended period before high-profile U.S. figures travelled to Pyongyang to secure their freedom. Last year, American university studentOtto Warmbier died days after he was releasedin a coma from North Korea after 17 months in cap...