North Korea’s University confirms arrest of US citizen
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SEOUL: A foreign-funded university in North Korea confirmed Monday the arrest of a US citizen -- the second person linked to the school held in two weeks amid tensions on the peninsula.
The detention of Kim Hak-Song means that the North is now holding four US citizens, with the two countries at loggerheads over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile ambitions.
The North detained Kim on Saturday for "hostile acts", the official KCNA news agency said Sunday, adding he had worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).
The school -- founded by evangelical Christians from overseas and opened in 2010 -- is known to have a number of American faculty members. Students are generally the children of the country's elite.
PUST confirmed Kim's arrest, saying he was detained as he was about to leave the country after a visit of several weeks.
"During that visit, Mr Kim was at PUST to do agricultural development work with PUST's experimental farm," it said in a statement.
It did not comment on the reason for Kim's arrest but said it was "not connected in any way with the work of PUST." (APP)
