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Seoul, Apr.14 (ANI): An American citizen, Jun Young Su has been detained in North Korea for his involvement in illegal missionary work in that country.

Prongyang has informed Washington. Jun is reportedly being given necessary humanitarian assistance, including consular contact with Swedish Embassy officials.

The U.S., which fought on South Korea’s side during the 1950-53 Korean War, does not have diplomatic staff in North Korea. So all American interests in North Korea are handled by Sweden.

Several Americans have been detained in North Korea in recent years and freeing them has often required high-profile negotiations, The Guardian reports.

Jun is the latest U.S. citizen to be detained in the reclusive communist state in recent years and preparations are being made to indict him, making it the third apparent case in less than a year of a US Christian activist being detained in the North.
Missionary Robert Park was held on Christmas Day 2009, after walking across the border to make a one-man protest about human rights violations in the country. He was freed in February 2010 after the North said he expressed “sincere repentance” for his actions and had been misled by Western propaganda.
In August, former President Jimmy Carter brought home Aijalon Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years’ hard labor for crossing into North Korea from China and joining rallies denouncing the North’s human rights record.
In 2009, journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested for trespassing in North Korea and had been released only after former President Bill Clinton had made a trip to Pyongyang to negotiate their freedom. (ANI)