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Published on 23 Apr 2017
북한, 세 번째 미국인 억류... 한국계 미국인 토니 김
Given the current geopolitical climate,... it's likely to be another flashpoint between North Korea and the United States.
Given the current geopolitical climate,... it's likely to be another flashpoint between North Korea and the United States.
North Korea has detained a Korean-American professor who taught at a university in Pyongyang.
No word yet on the reason for his arrest.
Kim Hyo-sun reports. North Korea has detained a professor who is a U.S. citizen; making him at least the third American held in the country.
Tony Kim was at Pyongyang airport preparing to leave North Korea when he was detained over the weekend.
The 58-year-old had been teaching a class in international finance and management at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology for around a month.
Reports say Kim,... who also goes by his Korean name Kim Sang-duk,... was due to get on a plane with his wife when he was arrested.
Kim was a former professor at a science and technology university in the northeastern Chinese city of Yanji, near the border with North Korea.
Some South Korean media outlets have reported that Kim had done aid work in North Korea,... but it's not yet known why he was detained.
The U.S. State Department says it's aware of reports that an American has been arrested,... but declined to comment further due to privacy considerations.
Kim joins two other U.S. citizens currently detained by the regime.
Twenty-two-year-old student Otto Warmbier was arrested in January last year.
He was later sentenced to 15 years of hard labor on charges of attempting to subvert the regime.
Also last year,... North Korea sentenced a Korean-American missionary, Kim Dong-chul,... who was arrested earlier in 2015,... to ten years of hard labor.
Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.
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