**rth Korea parades detained American student
 

**rth Korea parades detained American student
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PYONGYANG, **rth Korea — **rth Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church back home who wanted it as a "trophy" — from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.

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