North Korea frees American detained for half year!

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Robert King, left, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, and U.S. citizen Eddie Jun, right, prepare to leave Pyongyang, North Korea, on Saturday. Photo: AP.

North Korea freed an American held for a half year for reportedly proselytizing, handing him on Saturday to a U.S. envoy who said Washington had not promised to provide aid in exchange for the man’s release.

The envoy, Robert King, accompanied Eddie Jun on a flight from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, and told reporters after arriving in Beijing that Mr. Jun would return to the United States to be reunited with his family “within a day or two.” Mr. Jun did not appear with Mr. King before reporters.

Mr. Jun, a Korean—American who travelled to North Korea several times and had business interests there, was arrested in November, with the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, saying he was accused of committing a serious crime. Pyongyang didn’t provide details about the alleged crime, but South Korean press reports say Mr. Jun was accused of spreading Christianity.

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