He was born in South Korea and became a naturalized US citizen. In an interview with CNN in January, Kim said he lived in Fairfax, Virginia, before moving in 2011 to Yangji, a city near the Chinese-North Korean border. He said he commuted daily to Rason, a special economic zone in N...
A US citizen freed from North Korea had been detained so long he probably had no idea Trump was presidentKieran Corcoran
The Trump administration announced in July that it was barring American citizens from traveling to North Korea starting Sept. 1 over concerns about detentions of Americans who travel there. Earlier this year,U.S. citizen Otto Warmbierwas sent home in a coma and later died after spending more t...
BEIJING -- With the USS Carl Vinson naval strike group heading for the Korean Peninsula, North Korea continues its show of defiance. A statement released Sunday by the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology confirmed that Tony Kim, a U.S. citizen, had been detained“as he ...
wearing gray uniforms, gather during a rehearsal to mark the first anniversary of a summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, on Apr...
NORTH Korea says it has detained another American citizen over unspecified hostile acts against the country. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim Hak Song, an employee of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, was detained on Saturday. ...
Entry rule: Must be traveling to/from the US through South Korea (OR) Official source: South Korea Embassy in Washington DC, USA — 47. Taiwan Eligible Nationalities: Following nationalities only Cambodia India Indonesia Laos Myanmar Vietnam Entry granted: 14 days Entry rules: Visa is NOT ...
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The United States welcomed North Korea's decision to release American citizen Merrill Newman, who was detained by North Korean authorities in late October on a visit as a tourist to the secretive country, the State Department said in a statement. ...
If you are a U.S. citizen who plans to work part-time while retired abroad, be aware that you may have to pay social security tax to the U.S. and to your country of residence.11 Some countries have totalization agreements with the U.S. which allow workers to pay Social Security taxe...