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North Korea has detained a Korean-American professor, The Washington Post reported. Kim Sang-duk, a former professor at China’s Yanbian University of Science and Technology, was reportedly arrested at Pyongyang’s airport on Friday while waiting to board a flight to leave the country. He had been in North Korea for a month to teach a class on international finance and management at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.
Kim is the third U.S. citizen known to be held in North Korea. Another, Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was arrested for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster while on a tour to the country and sentenced, in March 2016, to 15 years of hard labor.
