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| US man 'jailed for spying in North Korea' | US man 'jailed for spying in North Korea' |
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| North Korea has sentenced a US citizen to 10 years of hard labour for spying, reports Chinese news agency Xinhua. | |
| It named the person as Kim Dong-chul, a naturalised US citizen born in South Korea who was arrested last October. | |
| Kim had appeared in front of reporters in Pyongyang last month making an apparent confession, saying he was paid by South Korea to conduct espionage. | |
| In March a US student was jailed for 15 years for trying to steal a propaganda sign and "crimes against the state". | |
| The US has previously accused North Korea of using its citizens as pawns in a diplomatic game. Pyongyang denies the accusations. | |
| The imprisonment comes amid a period of high tensions. North Korea has recently conducted a series of missile tests following its fourth nuclear test in January, both of which break UN sanctions. | |
| Pyongyang attempted to launch two mid-range ballistic missiles on Thursday which crashed shortly after their launches, prompting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. |