North Korea (AP) on Saturday announced that the United States is tried in the Supreme Court accused of plotting to overthrow the government detained nearly six months, if he is convicted of a crime, can be brought to the death penalty.
Kenneth Pei, since early November, has been kept in North Korea the case further complicate the relationship between Pyongyang and Washington has been filled week rhetoric and rising tensions.
The test reflects a similar situation in 2009, when the United States and North Korea are locked in a deadlock Pyongyang fired a long-range rocket, and the decision of an underground nuclear test. At that time, North Korea's detention of two American reporters, after the final release, was sentenced to 12 years hard labor after months of tension, paved the way for diplomacy.
Philo first in North Korea's far northeast region of China and the Russian border, a special economic zone, according to the official state media was arrested in early November. Sent in North Korea, BAE, Korean Americans, known as PAE He Jun, North Korea, his Korean name is spelled.
He was accused of the exact nature of the offense has not been revealed, but North Korea accused of PEI as a tour operator, description, trying to overthrow the Korean leadership.
"In the course of the investigation, he admitted his crime aimed at the overthrow of the North Korean hostility," the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Saturday. His crimes evidence that he will soon be brought to the Supreme Court of North Korea to stand trial. "
Democratic People's Republic of Korea South Korea North Korea's official name abbreviation. There is no time a judgment issued by the the grim Supreme Court in Pyongyang.
Ren Psaki U.S. State Department spokesman said the U.S. government is aware of the reports, U.S. citizens will face trial in North Korea, and officials from the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang on Friday visited PEI. She said she had no other information sharing.
Washington and Pyongyang do not have diplomatic relations, the Swedish Embassy in the DPRK on behalf of the United States in the proceedings.
Friends and colleagues described Pei from the state of Washington as a devout Christian, but headquartered in the Chinese border city of Dalian, often to feed the orphans in the country to North Korea.
At least three other Americans have been held in recent years has been a devout Christian. Although North Korea's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice, only recognizes the service is intolerable regime.
According to the Korean criminal law, endangering national can learn from life imprisonment or death sentence.
In 2009, the American female journalists Laura Ling and EUNA Lee was sentenced to four months hard labor after being arrested for invasive and unspecified hostile acts near the Chinese border held.
They were later released this year, former President Bill Clinton flew to Pyongyang to negotiate the release of their visit, the then leader Kim Jong Il as a diplomatic coup.
Pei Ling and Lee at least a sixth of Americans being held in North Korea since 2009. Eventually be deported or released.
Su Mei Yuhuan, research professor at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea North Korea said: "For North Korea, BAE is in a bargaining chip with the United States,". North in his way, help make the U.S. negotiators mood slowly turned to dialogue. "
In 2009, Pyongyang has been locked in a confrontation with the Obama administration, North Korea's drive to produce nuclear weapons.
The Washington leadership activities, to punish North Korea launched a long-range rocket in December for a nuclear test in February, the third.
North Korea claimed that the need to build atomic weapons to defend itself against the United States in South Korea, which has 28,500 troops, including nuclear-capable stealth bombers and fighters in the past two years with South Korea to hold joint military exercises.
Diplomats from China, Korea, the United States, Japan and Russia have been given the rhetoric in recent weeks, try and find a way to control the the Pyongyang spark real war in the region before miscalculated.
South Korean Defense Ministry official said earlier this month, North Korea's medium-range missiles to attack the territory of the United States, the East Coast to move.
War on the Korean peninsula is still in the state, because in the three-year Korean War truce, not a peace treaty, ending in 1953.
 



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