PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - FEB. 19: An American university student who has been detained in North Korea since early January apologized Monday for having committed what Pyongyang calls an anti-state hostile act and begged for his early release. The student's meeting with the press in ...
Americans Detained President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on May 9 that North Korea had freed three American citizens ahead of a planned meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Tensions rose in relation to Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear weapons after the death of ...
American Detained in North Korea Arrives Home in California.SubramanianCourtneyTime.com
CBS News has learned the American who crossed into North Korea Tuesday morning is a U.S. soldier. He is said to have crossed over the military demarcation line from South Korea, and the North Koreans took him into custody. CBS News senior foreign corresp
North Korea has beenholding a Korean-American missionary, Kenneth Bae, since November 2012. Bae was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what the North says were hostile acts against the state. In March, North Koreadeported an Australian missionarydetained for spreading Christianity in the cou...
Yun and the North Koreans agreed that the Swedish ambassador could visit Otto and the three other Americans who were detained in North Korea. In the end, the proxy was reportedly allowed to see only one detainee—but not Otto. Yun continued to demand access to Otto, and one day in early...
A group of tourists stand near a border station at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, July 18, 2023. Not long after this photo was taken, Travis King, a U.S. soldier, bolted across the border and became the first known American detained in the North in nearly ...
North Korea is known to be holding at leastthree Americans, two of whom had worked with PUST and were detained this spring. Tony Kim, who also goes by his Korean name, Kim Sang-duk, taught accounting at the university before he was detained at an airport in April and charged ...
It is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that Iran’s government end its pursuit of death and destruction. It is time for the regime to free all Americans and citizens of other nations that they have unjustly detained. And above all, Iran’s government must stop supporting...
North Korea has been pushing to promote tourism as part of efforts to earn badly needed foreign currency, but the country is also extremely sensitive about how visitors act while in the country. The other American being held was detained for alleged improper behavior while entering the country. ...