Imprisoned in North Korea: The Cases of 3 Americans
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Mr. Kim had spent a month teaching accounting at Pyongyang University of Science
and Technology, in North Korea’s capital, and was trying to board a plane to leave the country when he was arrested on Saturday, according to the chancellor of the university, Chan-Mo Park.
In announcing his arrest, state news media said that Mr. Warmbier had visited North Korea with the intention of "bringing down the foundation of its single-minded unity." At a news conference last year, Mr. Warmbier acknowledged stealing the poster and said
that he had done so because an acquaintance had offered to give him a used car worth $10,000 in exchange for it.
The arrest on Saturday of Tony Kim, also known as Kim Sang-duk, brings to three the number of American citizens currently being held in North Korea.
Otto F. Warmbier, 21, a University of Virginia undergraduate from the Cincinnati area, had gone to North Korea on a group tour,
and was about to board a flight home when he was detained in January 2016.
"He had been involved with some other activities outside P.U.S.T., such as helping an orphanage." Mr. Kim, who is in his 50s, had previously taught at Yanbian University of Science
and Technology, an affiliated institute in the Chinese province of Jilin, near the North Korean border.
Kim Dong-chul, an American businessman, was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor in April 2016 for spying and other offenses.
