As of Monday morning, North Korea's official media had not reported on the detention. Yonhap said Kim, in his late 50s, had been involved in aid programs in North Korea. "We can not comment on anything that Mr. Kim may be alleged to have done that is not related to his teaching work and not on the PUST campus".
North Korea detained a United States citizen for unknown reasons as he was planning to fly out of Pyongyang International Airport on Saturday morning.
The U.S. State Department spokesperson, when contacted by NK News on Sunday (South Korean time), said they were investigating the reports but had no further information to provide.
"He was prevented from getting on the flight out of Pyongyang", Aberg said.
The arrest comes even as the two countries repeatedly threaten each other with launching military strikes, triggering fears of an all-out war in the Korean peninsula. Sweden represents the United States' interests in North Korea.
Two other USA citizens now imprisoned by the North Korean regime are Kim Dong-chul, a sexagenarian of South Korean origin captured near the border with China, and Otto Frederick Warmbier, a student who allegedly tried to steal a propaganda poster while visiting as a tourist, Efe news reports.
Each was sentenced to over a decade of hard labor.
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Woodruff stated that "today's news really marks the third detention of a USA citizen by North Korea in the past 16 months".
In March 2016, Kim Dong Chul, a 62-year-old Korean-American missionary, was sentenced to 10 years hard labor for subversion.
North Korea has a reputation for using foreign prisoners as diplomatic pawns.
While the North Korean government have been vocally reacting to Trump's standing with the nation and continuing to test out their nuclear capabilities, this latest development may result in something of a tipping point.
'The reason North Korea is not saying anything yet is because it is not done with the investigations, ' Ahn Chan-il, a former defector, told AFP.
Pyongyang said Sunday it was poised to destroy the USS Carl Vinson if provoked when the aircraft carrier and its armada arrive at the Korean Peninsula.
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