North Korea frees American man

North Korea freed an American captivated for a bisected year for reportedly proselytizing, handing him Saturday to a U.S. agent who said Washington had not promised to accommodate aid in barter for the man's release.The envoy, Robert King, accompanied Eddie Jun on a flight from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, and told reporters afterwards accession in Beijing that Jun would acknowledgment to the United States to be reunited with his ancestors "within a day or two." Jun did not arise with King afore reporters.Jun, a Korean American who catholic to North Korea several times and had business interests there, was arrested in November, with the North's official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, adage he was accused of committing a austere crime. Pyongyang didn't accommodate capacity about the declared crime, but South Korean columnist letters say Jun was accused of overextension Christianity.King, the U.S. agent for North Korean animal rights, catholic to Pyongyang with a aggregation of specialists beforehand in the anniversary to appraise the severity of the most recent of North Korea's abiding aliment shortages. He said he spent 3 1/2 canicule in talks with North Korean Foreign Ministry officials. He did not specify how abundant time was spent discussing Jun but approved to annihilate any belief that the U.S. offered aid to access his freedom.