N Korea confirms detention of US citizen

November 23, 2013 01:58

North Korea has confirmed through Swedish officials in Pyongyang that it has detained a US citizen, a State Department official said on Friday, after reports that an 85-year-old California man was pulled off a plane as he was about to leave the country.

"Our Swedish protecting power has been informed of the detention of a US citizen," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.

The family of Merrill Newman, a retiree from Palo Alto, California, and Korean War veteran, said he was taken away by North Korean officials.

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