SEOUL: North Korea said on Thursday it had sentenced a Korean-American tour operator to 15 years’ hard labor for “hostile acts,” stoking tensions with the United States, which had pleaded for his release.
Kim Jong-Un’s isolated regime is likely to use the detainee as a bargaining chip, experts said, as it seeks concessions from the US following weeks of bellicose threats of missile strikes and nuclear war.
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