Visiting North Korea as a tourist comes with unpredictable danger as two Americans are about to experience.
North Korea said Monday it is preparing to indict two American tourists that authorities had arrested in April for carrying out what it says were hostile acts against the country.
Investigations into American tourists Miller Matthew Todd and Jeffrey Edward Fowle concluded that suspicions about their hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and their testimonies, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a short report.
Both Americans were arrested earlier this year after entering the country as tourists.
One mistake may be one of the tourist from Ohio was also a missionary at a church.
The other tourist tore up his US passport and North Korean visa and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum.
The United States and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations. Sweden, which has an embassy in Pyongyang, oversees consular issues for the U.S. there.
