SEOUL: North Korea announced Sunday it had incarcerated a US citizen for “hostile acts” — a second detain in a fortnight of an American as tensions arise between Pyongyang and Washington.
Kim Hak Song was incarcerated on Saturday, a state news group KCNA reported. “A applicable establishment is now conducting minute review into his crimes,” it added.
It pronounced Kim had worked for a Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), as had a US citizen incarcerated final month.
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The two-paragraph news gave no serve sum of a detain of Kim Hak Song.
Last Wednesday a North reliable a detain on Apr 22 of Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, for perplexing to “overturn” a regime.
The detain of Kim Hak Song means 4 US adults are now being hold in a North.
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Pyongyang is intent in a moving deadlock with a administration of new US President Donald Trump over a barb and chief weapons programmes.
The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology — founded by devout Christians from abroad and non-stop in 2010 — is famous to have a series of American expertise members. Pupils are generally children from a North’s elite.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1403784/north-korea-detains-another-us-citizen/