SEOUL: North Korea on Friday sentenced a detained Korean-American, Kim Dong-chul, to 10 years hard labor on charges of subversion and espionage, China’s official Xinhua news agency said.
The announcement, which comes at a time of elevated military tensions on the Korean peninsula, followed an even harsher sentence of 15 years hard labor passed last month on a US student, Otto Warmbier, for stealing a propaganda banner from a tourist hotel in Pyongyang.
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