North Korea said Friday it has detained an American citizen who visited the country as a tourist in April. The state-run news agency KCNA identified the man as Jeffrey Edward Fowle, saying authorities are investigating him for "hostile activities" after he allegedly left a Bible at a hotel. Fowle visited North Korea as part of a tour group in late April and has been in custody since mid-May, a Japanese news organization reports.
Fowle's arrest makes him the third U.S. citizen known to be detained by the secretive country. North Korea announced in late April that it had 24-year-old tourist Miller Matthew Todd in custody for reportedly demanding asylum. It also sentenced missionary Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American caught in the country in 2012, to 15 years of hard labor for "acts aimed at bringing down the regime of leader Kim Jong Un."
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