3 Americans Remain Imprisoned in North Korea<br />Two were arrested in the last two months; Tony Kim, also known as Kim Sang-duk, on April 23,<br />and Kim Hak-song, also known as Jin Xue Song, on May 6; the North Korean authorities accused each man of "hostile acts." Little is known about the case of the third American, Kim Dong-chul, including why he was detained in 2015.<br />"He had been involved with some other activities outside P.U.S.T., such as helping an orphanage." Mr. Kim, who is in his 50s, had previously taught at Yanbian University of Science<br />and Technology, an affiliated institute in the Chinese province of Jilin, near the North Korean border.<br />According to CNN, Mr. Kim, an ethnic Korean, was born in Jilin, China, near the North Korean border, and emigrated to the United States in the 1990s.<br />Mr. Kim had spent a month teaching accounting at Pyongyang University of Science<br />and Technology and was trying to board a plane to leave the country when he was arrested, according to the chancellor of the university, Chan-Mo Park.<br />Kenneth Bae said that Another<br />Mr. Kim’s predicament was not known until January 2016, when the North Korean government let CNN interview him in Pyongyang.
