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The Supreme Court of North Korea sentenced American Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor for "crimes against the country." Bae arrived with a tourist group on Nov. 3 and has been held ever since. By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News
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A trial of Pae Jun Ho, an American citizen, took place held at the Supreme Court of the DPRK on April 30. He was arrested while committing hostile acts against the DPRK after entering Rason City as a tourist on Nov. 3 last year, it said.
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Washington state Rep. Cindy Ryu told The Herald newspaper in December that Bae might have been doing missionary work in North Korea. cruise bargains departing from san francisco "Many of us are third- and fourth-generation cruise bargains departing from san francisco Christians and many of our pastors are originally from North Korea," Ryu said. "We want to visit our home country, but in North Korea you cannot say you are a missionary."
Kwon added Bae went to North Korea to feed orphans and may have taken photographs of them begging for food. He probably couldn t walk away from what he saw. But he added that Bae was such a warm-hearted person, I can t imagine him breaking the law."
North Korea defector Kwon Hyo-jin, who spent time in one of the North s notorious slave labor camps, told Reuters that Bae would probably be sent to a correctional facility that only houses foreigners and had been set up as a model for international human rights groups. Slideshow: Glimpses into the hermit kingdom of North Korea
"If an American served jail together with North Korean inmates, which won't happen, he could tell them about capitalism or economic developments. That would be the biggest mistake for North Korea," Kwon told Reuters.
In 2009, American cruise bargains departing from san francisco journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to "hard labor" for trespassing and unspecified hostile acts after being arrested near the border with China and held for four months, according to the AP.
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