American Begins 15 Year Sentence At Mysterious North Korean ‘Special Prison’ | Talking Points Memo

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what Pyongyang has described as hostile acts against the state has started life at a “special prison,” state media said Wednesday.Kenneth Bae entered the prison Tuesday, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch, but no other new details were provided about the American arrested in November who Pyongyang accuses of trying to establish an anti-Pyongyang base in the North. Two South Korean experts on North Korean law said they didn’t know what a “special prison” was.


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