North Korea confirmed Saturday that an American veteran of the Korean War has been detained for "hostile acts" against the communist country and said he had released a written apology confessing to his alleged crimes.
Merrill Newman, an 85-year-old from California, was held in October after entering the North "under the guise of a tourist", the country's official KCNA news agency said.
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