North Korea will deport a U. S. citizen detained since October after he entered illegally from China and told his captors he was controlled by the U. S. Cent
SEOUL – North Korea will deport a U. S. citizen detained since October after he entered illegally from China and told his captors he was controlled by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the North Korean state news agency reported on Friday.
The KCNA news agency identified the American as Bruce Byron Lowrance.
An American man of the same name was deported from South Korea in November 2017 after being found wandering near the heavily fortified border with North Korea, but there was no immediate confirmation of the identity of the man held by North Korea.
A spokesman for the U. S. Embassy in the South Korean capital, Seoul, did not have an immediate comment.
