North Korea frees US citizen after six months

AN AMERICAN citizen released after six months’ detention in North Korea has arrived in Seoul after he left the communist state with a US delegation, South Korean news media said.

Eddie Jun Yong-Su, a US citizen of Korean ancestry, came to Seoul via Beijing after he flew out of Pyongyang with the group led by Robert King, US special envoy for human rights and humanitarian issues.

“I have to go to hospital now. I’ll have a chance to talk to you later,” Jun told journalists at Seoul’s Incheon airport.