North Korea said it had detained another American citizen over unspecified "hostile acts" against the country.
Accounting professor Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, also a USA citizen, was held on April 22, the North confirmed last week, for trying to "overturn" the regime. The KCNA didn't say whether the two cases are conne.
Kim HAK-sung was detained on Saturday, reports the North Korean Agency KCNA.
He is in his early 60s and was born in South Korea but became a US citizen in 1987; he was sentenced to 10 years in prison in April 2016 on charges of spying.
"The security of USA citizens is one of the department's highest priorities", a spokeswoman said, adding that the department was working with the Swedish Embassy, which represents the United States in North Korea. Kim had also been teaching at that university before he was taken into custody.
China's actions against the North, the US bill and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's remark that the U.S. administration is 20 percent to 25 percent of its way into its campaign to put pressure on the North indicate that more pressure will be coming. Last month, the third detained citizen, Kim Sang-duck, had also taught at Pyongyang University, according to BBC News.
The North, which is widely seen as making progress toward building a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the USA mainland, has carried out a series of launches this year.
Anchor: North Korea announced that it has arrested an American citizen just a few days after disclosing the detainment of a Korean American. This would bring the tally to four USA citizens held by the reclusive nation. Its students are generally children of the country's elite.
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"That does not mean, however, that the detainees will not be part of that dialogue because I - from my experience, I would say one of the first requirements we would have is to show goodwill".
Two other Americans were convicted and sentenced in North Korea previous year.
It said he was "intercepted for committing criminal acts" to overthrow the North's government, but did not elaborate.
Warmbier was detained in January 2016 and sentenced to 15 years hard labour for attempting to steal a propaganda banner.
The US has in the past accused North Korea of detaining its citizens to use them as pawns.
Both men worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, but it's not clear if there's a connection between the arrests.
It gave no further details.
The American professor was detained by officials as he was trying to leave North Korea from Pyongyang's global airport on Saturday morning, according to ABC News.
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