Report
on Arrest of U.S. Citizen for Hostile Acts in DPRK
Pyongyang, November
30 (KCNA) — The Korean Central News Agency released the following report on
Saturday:
A relevant
institution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea recently put in
custody U.S. citizen Merrill Edward Newman who committed hostile acts against
the DPRK after entering the country under the guise of a tourist.
After entering the
DPRK as a member of tourists' group in October he perpetrated acts of infringing
upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and slandering its socialist
system, quite contrary to the purpose of tour.
He also committed
such crime as trying to look for spies and terrorists who conducted espionage
and subversive activities against the DPRK in the area of Mt. Kuwol during the
last Fatherland Liberation War as well as their families and descendants and
connect them with the "Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association,"
an anti-DPRK plot-breeding organization of south Korea.
According to the
results of the investigation, he was active as adviser of "Kuwol
Unit" of the UN Korea 6th Partisan Regiment part of the Intelligence
Bureau of the Command of the U.S. Forces in the Far East since early in 1953.
He is a criminal as he masterminded espionage and subversive activities against
the DPRK and in this course he was involved in killings of service personnel of
the Korean People's Army and innocent civilians.
The investigation
clearly proved Newman's hostile acts against the DPRK and they were backed by
evidence. He admitted all his crimes and made an apology for them.
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