NORTH-KOREA   –  North Korea sentenced a South Korean-born American citizen to 10 years of hard labor for subversion and espionage, a North Korean official told CNN.

Kim Dong Chul is the second American that North Korea has given a hard labor sentence in the past two months. In March, University of Virginia student Otto Frederick Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly removing a political banner from a Pyongyang hotel. CNN’s Will Ripley spoke to Kim in January, after he said he had been in detention for three months.  Kim said he moved to Yanji, a Chinese city near the Chinese-North Korean border that acts as a trade hub between the two countries, in 2001. From Yanji, Kim said he commuted daily to Rason, a special economic zone on the North Korean side of the border, where he served as president of a company involved in international trade and hotel services. According to Kim, he spied on behalf of “South Korean conservative elements” on the country’s nuclear and military program. “I was tasked with taking photos of military secrets and ‘scandalous’ scenes,” he said at the time.

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