North Korea says will try detained U.S. journalists

SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Friday that it has decided to put
two U.S. female journalists arrested in its Chinese border last month on trial in
Pyongyang for illegal entry and "hostile acts."

North Korea's investigation authorities "made an official decision to bring them
to trial on the basis of the documents on their crimes," the official Korean
Central News Agency said.
The American journalists from Current TV were detained in North Korea's border
region facing China on March 17. Pyongyang later accused them of illegally
entering the country and committing unspecified "hostile acts."
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