U.S. citizen released at Obama's 'repeated requests': N. Korea
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's release of a detained American citizen came at the "repeated requests" of U.S. President Barack Obama, the communist country's state media said Wednesday.
"Kim Jong Un, first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, took such a special measure as setting free Jeffrey Edward Fowle, U.S. criminal, taking into consideration the repeated requests of U.S. President Obama," the North's Korean Central News Agency said in an English dispatch, monitored in Seoul.
Kim is the North's leader, while DPRK is the acronym of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"The criminal was handed over to the U.S. side according to a relevant legal procedure," the report said.
North Korea released Fowle earlier in the day after detaining him in April for allegedly leaving a Bible in a hotel.
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