N. Korea Set to Free American Woman
North Korea today will deport an American businesswoman detained last month, the nation’s official news agency said Monday.
Karen Han, a Korean American with homes in California and New Jersey, was arrested June 17 for a “gross violation” of a North Korean legal order, the Korean Central News Agency said.
But the news agency said North Korea decided to “leniently pardon and deport her in consideration of her frank admission of her misconduct.”
State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said Han was in North Korea on a trip related to an effort to build a hospital and a garment manufacturing plant.
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