RISING NUCLEAR TENSIONS
North Korea holds fourth US citizen for ‘hostile acts’
The arrest of Kim Hak-song follows threats between the North and the US over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile ambitions
Seoul — North Korea has detained another US citizen for committing "hostile acts", it said on Sunday, its second arrest of a US citizen in a fortnight with tensions high between Pyongyang and Washington. The arrest of Kim Hak-song means that the North is holding four US citizens, with the two countries at loggerheads over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile ambitions. Kim was detained on Saturday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. "A relevant institution is now conducting detailed investigation into his crimes," it said. The report gave no further details of the latest arrest. But it said Kim had been working for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology — an institution founded by evangelical Christians from overseas and opened in 2010, which is known to have a number of US faculty members. Kim is the second of its personnel to have been detained in as many weeks. Accounting professor Kim Sang-duk, or Tony Kim, also a US citizen, was held on April 22, th...
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