Off the wire
• Ukrainian president hails visa liberalization with EU  • British PM, Ugandan president to discuss South Sudan, Somalia conflicts  • UN wary of ethnic revenge fighting escalating in South Sudan's Pibor area  • Xiaomi, China Telecom partner to offer smart home services  • U.S. stocks open lower amid disappointing earnings  • China's coal-rich province to close 18 collieries in 2017  • Sudan's new government to be announced soon: Presidency  • EU Council of Ministers approve GSP plus for Sri Lanka  • Bank of China joins Britain's electronic same-day payment system CHAPS  • Chinese higher education fair opens in Morocco  
You are here: 　 Home

DPRK vows to deal with 2 recently detained U.S. citizens according to law

Xinhua, May 11, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday it will deal with two U.S. citizens detained recently by its security service in accordance with the law.

The Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK as saying that "the recently detained Americans are under investigation of a relevant legislative organ for their criminal acts against the DPRK."

The DPRK security service detained two U.S. citizens in late April and early May for suspected hostile activities against the country. Both of them are of Korean origin and worked for a local university.

"As was noted in the statement of a spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of State Security, the U.S. and other hostile forces are ceaselessly and frantically committing hideous crimes to remove the supreme leadership of the DPRK and overthrow its state," said the spokesman.

"It is an exercise of the legitimate right of a sovereign state to deal with the criminals according to its law," he said. Endi