North Korea detained a US citizen on Friday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, bringing the total number of Americans held by the isolated country to three.
The man, a Korean-American in his fifties identified only by his surname Kim, had been in North Korea for a month to discuss relief activities, Yonhap said yesterday. He was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport on his way out of the country.
The man was a former professor at Yanbian University of Science and Technology, Yonhap said, citing unnamed sources. (Reuters)