North Korea Detains Another American Citizen

Updated Monday 24 April 2017 13:49

An American professor Kim Dong Chul has been arrested and detained by the North Korean government.

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Chu, a naturalized US citizen of Korean origin was arrested at the Pyongyang International airport as he was about leaving the Asian country.

The development comes hours after Japan announced that two of its Naval destroyers have began conducting joint naval drills with America’s USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group in the western Pacific Ocean.

The U.S doesn’t have any diplomatic relations with North Korea and uses Sweden to negotiate it’s interests in North Korea, hence the Swedish embassy on Sunday confirmed the arrest and detention of Kim.

This is not the first time the North Korean government is detaining American citizens.

Within the last 5 years, over two other US citizens and a British journalist have been detained by Kim Jong-Un’s led secretive government.

On January 2 last year, a 21-year-old Otto Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, was detained at Pyongyang airport after visiting the country with a tour group.

Warmbier has since been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly removing a political sign from a hotel wall.

Chul was arrested on October 2015. Last year, North Korea sentenced him to 10 years of hard labor on espionage charges.

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