South Korea detained a US man trying to swim across a river to the North, a news report said on Wednesday.
The man, said to be in his late 20s or early 30s, was arrested just before midnight on the bank of the Han river where it forms the border with North Korea, Yonhap News Agency said, citing an unnamed government source.
During questioning, the suspect said he “was trying to go to North Korea in order to meet with supreme leader Kim Jong Un,” according to the source.
Another US citizen, 24-year-old Matthew Miller, was sentenced to six years of hard labour in Pyongyang on Sunday for acts of hostility against the state of North Korea.
