{"id":16677,"date":"2014-01-21T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-21T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:01:13","slug":"U-S-envoy-to-visit-North-Korea-over-jailed-American-Kenneth-Bae--Finally-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16677","title":{"rendered":"U.S. envoy to visit North Korea over jailed American, Kenneth Bae – Finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States has offered to send a special envoy to North Korea to win the release of a jailed missionary, but signaled that any meaningful talks with Pyongyang will require it to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kenneth Bae, 45,<\/strong> has been held for more than a year by the North, which has convicted him of trying to overthrow the state and sentenced him to 15 years hard labor.<\/p>\n

Bae, a Korean American,<\/strong> was paraded in front of a group of foreign and local reporters on Monday and asked Washington to help him get home, the North’s state news agency and foreign media based in Pyongyang reported.<\/p>\n

“We hope this decision by DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) authorities to allow Kenneth Bae to meet with reporters signals their willingness to release him,” a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n

“We have offered to send Ambassador King to Pyongyang to secure Mr. Bae’s release,” the official added, referring to U.S. North Korean rights envoy Robert King.<\/p>\n

“We have asked the North Koreans this, and await their early response,” the official added.<\/p>\n

An attempt by King to secure Bae’s release last August was rejected by Pyongyang.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear why the North Korean authorities had allowed the event at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital, Bae’s second media appearance since his arrest in 2012 when he led a tour group into the country.<\/p>\n

North Korea’s state KCNA news agency reported Bae himself had asked to hold the press conference.<\/p>\n

Bae’s sister in the United States said in a statement that while her brother appeared in decent health during the news conference, he was “distressed” and likely “worn down physically and emotionally” after 15 months of imprisonment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let him go!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/em>
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