N Korea says will not free US citizens it is holding

SEOUL: North Korea will not negotiate with the US over two American citizens it is holding until former detainee Kenneth Bae stops publicly talking about his time

SEOUL: North Korea will not negotiate with the US over two American citizens it is holding until former detainee Kenneth Bae stops publicly talking about his time in prison, state media said on Monday. North Korea arrested Bae, a US missionary, in November 2012 and sentenced him to 15 years’ hard labour for crimes against the state. He was released two years later and has written an account of his detention in a memoir released in May.

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