FOXNews.com: AMERICAN SENTENCED:N. Korea Gives US Citizen 15 Years of Hard Labor

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AMERICAN SENTENCED:N. Korea Gives US Citizen 15 Years of Hard Labor May 2nd 2013, 03:43 Published May 01, 2013 Associated Press A photo provided by Bobby Lee, shows Kenneth Bae, right, and Bobby Lee together when they were freshmen students at the University of Oregon in 1988. Bae is being detained in North Korea and could face the death penalty if he is convicted on charges that he planned to overthrow the North Korean government.AP/The Register-Guard, Bobby Lee DEVELOPING: North Korea says an American detained for nearly six months has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for crimes against the state. Pyongyang state media said Thursday that the trial took place Tuesday but provided no other new details in announcing Kenneth Bae's sentencing. Bae was tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government. He could've faced the death penalty. The case further complicates already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington following weeks of heightened rhetoric and tensions. North Korea says Bae was arrested in early November in Rason, a special economic zone in North Korea's far northeastern region bordering China and Russia. The exact nature of his alleged crimes has not been revealed. Friends describe Bae as a tour operator.

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