Rice's remarks come after North Korea announced that it had detained another USA citizen on Sunday, a professor who worked at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology - this time on suspicion of "hostile acts" against the state, according to North Korea's propaganda news outlet.
On Monday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Washington will work through the Swedish Embassy in North Korea to free the Americans.
Kim Hak Song was arrested Saturday "on suspicion of his hostile acts against [the state]", North Korea's state-run news agency KCNA reported Sunday. "He went to Pyongyang to devote himself to the development of North Korea's agricultural technology so that the North can be self-sufficient with food", said classmate David Kim.
The US has dispatched a military strike group to Korean waters in order to hold military drills with Japan and North Korea.
In April, sources told RFA that Chinese border guards began searching every North Korean cargo truck crossing into China via the bridge, instead of randomly selecting vehicles, and said it indicated that Beijing was implementing financial sanctions against Pyongyang in the wake of a U.S.
Kim Hak Song is now the tenth American to be detained by North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong-un.
China has apparently passed on the message to North Korea while arguing that more forward-looking proposals will be needed to win over Pyongyang.
One other of the four Americans detained, Kim Sang-duk, also taught at PUST.
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North Korea now holds four US citizens in detention.
A source with knowledge of the latest talks said the venue was the Norwegian capital, Oslo, and the USA delegation was led by Suzanne DiMaggio, a director and senior fellow at the New America think tank.
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" American tourist Otto Warmbier was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion".
North Korea arrested a United States citizen for alleged hostile activities in April at Pyongyang airport.
Kim worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.
On Friday, North Korean officials announced the launch of a campaign to root out suspected foreign agents, after Pyongyang made dramatic, unsubstantiated claims to have foiled a CIA-backed plot to assassinate supreme leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korea last week accused the US and South Korean spy agencies of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on leader Kim Jong Un involving biochemical weapons.
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