Four Americans detained in **rth Korea
 

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SEOUL: **rth Korea an**unced on Sunday that it had detained a US citizen, the fourth American in custody there, as tensions rise between Pyongyang and Washington.

The **rth has arrested and jailed several US citizens in the past decade, often releasing them only after high-profile visits by current or former US officials or former US presidents.

These are the US citizens **w being held:

Kim Hak-Song had been working for the Pyongyang University of Science and Tech**logy (PUST) before he was arrested on Saturday, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

The university was founded by evangelical Christians from overseas and opened in 2010, and is k**wn to have a number of American faculty members. Pupils are generally children from the **rth’s elite. ** further information has yet been released on Kim.

Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, was arrested last month at the main airport as he tried to leave the country after teaching for several weeks, also at PUST. Kim is a former professor at Yanbian University of Science and Tech**logy in China, close to the Korean border. Its website lists his speciality as accounting.

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