North Korea has sentenced an American tour guide to 15 years in a labour camp for unspecified crimes against the state.
By By Malcolm Moore in Beijing
Kenneth Bae (Pae Jun-ho), a 44-year-old ethnic Korean with United States
citizenship, appeared on trial before the Supreme Court in Pyongyang on
Tuesday, according to the North Korean state news wire.
He was charged with "committing crimes aimed at toppling the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea with hostility towards it".
Mr Bae was arrested last November as he led a tour group of five Europeans
into the Rason Special Economic Zone, a pilot region on the border of China
and Russia which is open to foreign companies.
Mr Bae, who is believed to live in China, ran a travel company called Nation
Tours and had led several trips into North Korea without incident.
North Korea has not revealed what crime he committed, but said "his
crimes were proved by evidence".
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