An American professor Kim Dong Chul has been arrested and
detained by the North Korean government.
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.
Martina Aberg, a Deputy Chief of Mission at the Sweden
embassy in Pyongyang told CNN, “He was prevented from getting on the flight out
of Pyongyang,”
“We don’t comment further than this.”
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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