North Korea Prisoners

A man in South Korea has been sentenced to one year and two months in prison for writing a poem in 2016 praising authoritarian North Korea and breaching a law banning access to the North's websites, news agency Yonhap reported on Monday.

Parents of children caught viewing foreign films will be sent to labour camps for six months while children will serve five years of imprisonment.

A US cryptocurrency expert was sentenced to 63 months in prison for advising North Korea on how to create cryptocurrency services and blockchain technology to circumvent US sanctions over its nuclear program, court officials in New York said.

After long stretches in labor camps and days of rumors about their release, three Americans who were held prisoner in North Korea are finally coming home.

Freedom can come with remarkable swiftness for U.S. citizens held prisoner by North Korea, an experience that may await three Americans currently detained by the reclusive nation.

US Vice President Mike Pence has invited the father of the late former North Korea prisoner Otto Warmbier to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home -- to North Korea

A US missionary who spent two years in a North Korean jail said Wednesday he had never imagined that a valuable American prisoner like student Otto Warmbier could die after being taken into Pyongyang's custody.

An Ohio coroner, abiding by family wishes, has performed an external examination instead of a full autopsy on the body of the U.S. student who was held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months and sent home in a coma, the agency said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump called the death of one-time North Korean prisoner Otto Warmbier a "total disgrace" Tuesday and appeared to take a swipe at the Obama administration for failing to bring the American student home before it was too late.

President Donald Trump called the death of one-time North Korean prisoner Otto Warmbier a "total disgrace" on Tuesday and said the student should have been brought back to the United States sooner.

The US student, Otto Warmbier, who faced a 17-month detention in North Korea, returned home this week because of medical concerns. University of Cincinnati doctors say that he demonstrates an extensive loss of brain tissue and is in a state of unresponsive wakefulness.

A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

North Korea has sentenced an ethnic Korean citizen of the United States to 10 years in prison.

North Korea has presented another American detainee before the media, nine days after it sentenced a US tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labour for subversion.

A man in South Korea has been sentenced to one year and two months in prison for writing a poem in 2016 praising authoritarian North Korea and breaching a law banning access to the North's websites, news agency Yonhap reported on Monday.

Parents of children caught viewing foreign films will be sent to labour camps for six months while children will serve five years of imprisonment.

A US cryptocurrency expert was sentenced to 63 months in prison for advising North Korea on how to create cryptocurrency services and blockchain technology to circumvent US sanctions over its nuclear program, court officials in New York said.

After long stretches in labor camps and days of rumors about their release, three Americans who were held prisoner in North Korea are finally coming home.

Freedom can come with remarkable swiftness for U.S. citizens held prisoner by North Korea, an experience that may await three Americans currently detained by the reclusive nation.

US Vice President Mike Pence has invited the father of the late former North Korea prisoner Otto Warmbier to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home -- to North Korea

A US missionary who spent two years in a North Korean jail said Wednesday he had never imagined that a valuable American prisoner like student Otto Warmbier could die after being taken into Pyongyang's custody.

An Ohio coroner, abiding by family wishes, has performed an external examination instead of a full autopsy on the body of the U.S. student who was held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months and sent home in a coma, the agency said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump called the death of one-time North Korean prisoner Otto Warmbier a "total disgrace" Tuesday and appeared to take a swipe at the Obama administration for failing to bring the American student home before it was too late.

President Donald Trump called the death of one-time North Korean prisoner Otto Warmbier a "total disgrace" on Tuesday and said the student should have been brought back to the United States sooner.

The US student, Otto Warmbier, who faced a 17-month detention in North Korea, returned home this week because of medical concerns. University of Cincinnati doctors say that he demonstrates an extensive loss of brain tissue and is in a state of unresponsive wakefulness.

A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

North Korea has sentenced an ethnic Korean citizen of the United States to 10 years in prison.

North Korea has presented another American detainee before the media, nine days after it sentenced a US tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labour for subversion.