North Korea arrests NYU student from New Jersey
North Korea says a US university student from New Jersey has been arrested and charged with illegally entering the country, according to a report.
Pyongyang said on Saturday that 21-year-old Joo Won-moon, a New York University student who holds a US green card, was arrested and detained on April 22 after entering the country through the Yalu River from Dandong, China.
Won-moon has "admitted that his illegal entry was a serious violation" of North Korean law, according to North Korea's KCNA news agency.
John Beckman, a NYU spokesman, wrote in an email in response to an inquiry, that a student called Won Moon Joo was a junior studying at the Stern School of Business.
“He is not taking classes this semester, and the university was unaware of his travels,” Beckman said.
In March, North Korea said that it had arrested and detained two South Koreans and alleged that they were spying in the country following their illegal entry from the Chinese border city of Dandong.
North Korea has, in recent years, detained several individuals, who operated near the North Korea-China border or entered the North as aid workers or missionaries. Pyongyang accused all of those people of working as spies.
In November, 2014, the country freed Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary, and another American, Matthew Todd Miller, who were imprisoned on “anti-state” charges.
The release was made possible after the US director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., traveled to the North to seek their freedom.
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