North Korea arrests American citizen

North Korea has arrested a US tourist on charges of committing “hostile activities” against the Asian country, Pyongyang’s state media say.

The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) made the announcement in a brief report on Friday, saying that Jeffrey Edward Fowle was being questioned by authorities.

“[The] US citizen [is] in custody for committing anti-DPRK (North Korea) hostile activities”, KCNA said.

“The US Citizen, who entered the DPRK (North Korea) on April 29 as a tourist, engaged in activities that were in breach of DPRK’s laws”, it added.

The man is the third American citizen currently detained in North Korea.

The two others include a 24-year-old American citizen identified as Miller Matthew Todd, who was arrested in April and a Korean-American citizen Kenneth Bae, who has been in custody in North Korea since November 2012.    

Pyongyang says the former was arrested for improper behavior while he was being processed to enter the country as a tourist while the latter was detained for hostile activities against North Korea.

The US and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations.

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