SEOUL: North Korea announced Monday it was releasing and deporting a South Korean citizen and US resident who was arrested back in April for illegal entry, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said.
Joo Won-Moon, a 21-year-old student at New York University, was to be repatriated through the border truce village of Panmunjom on the inter-Korean border at around 5:30 pm (0830 GMT), the ministry said in a statement.
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