{{North Korea said Wednesday that the U.S. citizen it sentenced last month to 15 years of hard labor has begun his stay at a “special prison.”}}<\/p>\n
Kenneth Bae, who the North Koreans refer to as Pae Jun Ho, was arrested in November in Rason city, a port in the northeastern corner of North Korea.<\/p>\n
North Korea accuses him of seeking to bring down the regime of Kim Jong Un, but the United States and his family say he was just working as a tour operator.<\/p>\n
In a short article Wednesday, the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Bae had “started his life at a ‘special prison’ on Tuesday.” It didn’t give any details about the prison.<\/p>\n
The United States has repeatedly called on North Korea to grant Bae amnesty and release him immediately, but the requests so far don’t appear to have gained any traction following a period of heightened tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n
Even a plea last week for Bae’s release from the basketball star Dennis Rodman, who met with Kim Jong Un during a bizarre visit to North Korea in February, has failed to have any apparent effect.<\/p>\n
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