Hong Kong: An American student who is being detained by North Korea did nothing obvious during a five-day trip to the country that would have angered the authorities, a member of his tour group said on Saturday. The student, Otto F. Warmbier of the University of Virginia, was being held for an unspecified "hostile act" against North Korea with the goal of "bringing down the foundation of its single-minded unity", North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency said on Friday. Mr Warmbier's detention at the airport in Pyongyang as the tour group was leaving the country on January 2 came as a surprise, said...
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