NKorea sentences US man to 8 years’ hard labor for illegally entering country and hostile acts
By APTuesday, April 6, 2010
NKorea sentences US man to 8 years of hard labor
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea says it has sentenced an American man to eight years’ hard labor for entering the country illegally and unspecified hostile acts.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch Wednesday that Aijalon Mahli Gomes acknowledged his wrongdoing during a court ruling Tuesday.
North Korea announced last month that it had arrested Gomes for entering the country illegally.
Gomes is from Boston.
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