ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />An American citizen who has illegally entered North Korea held a news conference in Pyongyang on Sunday (December 14) to deliver a lengthy denunciation of U.S. domestic and foreign policy and is seeking political asylum in Venezuela, the North's official media said.<br/> <br />In video provided to Reuters by the North's official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, it showed the man, who identified himself as Arturo Pierre Martinez, speaking at a news conference at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Sunday.<br/> <br />"My name is Arturo Pierre Martinez. I'm a 29-year-old U.S. citizen born and bred in the city of El Paso, in the state of Texas. I have taken up a risky journey to the DPRK so that I can pass on some very valuable and disturbing information I felt that its government would appreciate," Martinez said.<br/> <br />Martinez spoke of human rights violations committed by the U.S. government and its attempts at forcing imp
