North Korea Detains Third American Citizen: Officials
A U.S. citizen aged in his 50s has been detained in North Korea according to Swedish officials and local media.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the man was detained on Friday, bringing the total number of Americans held by the isolated country to three.
An official at South Korea's National Intelligence Service said it was not aware of the reported arrest.
At least two other Americans are currently detained in North Korea. Last year, Otto Warmbier, then a 21-year-old University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in prison after he confessed to trying to steal a propaganda banner. Kim Dong Chul, who was born in South Korea but is also believed to have U.S. citizenship, is serving a sentence of 10 years for espionage.
Source: NBC News
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