American in North Korea denounces U.S.: state media
- 9 years ago
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An American citizen who has illegally entered North Korea held a news conference in Pyongyang on Sunday (December 14) to deliver a lengthy denunciation of U.S. domestic and foreign policy and is seeking political asylum in Venezuela, the North's official media said.
In video provided to Reuters by the North's official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, it showed the man, who identified himself as Arturo Pierre Martinez, speaking at a news conference at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Sunday.
"My name is Arturo Pierre Martinez. I'm a 29-year-old U.S. citizen born and bred in the city of El Paso, in the state of Texas. I have taken up a risky journey to the DPRK so that I can pass on some very valuable and disturbing information I felt that its government would appreciate," Martinez said.
Martinez spoke of human rights violations committed by the U.S. government and its attempts at forcing imp
An American citizen who has illegally entered North Korea held a news conference in Pyongyang on Sunday (December 14) to deliver a lengthy denunciation of U.S. domestic and foreign policy and is seeking political asylum in Venezuela, the North's official media said.
In video provided to Reuters by the North's official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, it showed the man, who identified himself as Arturo Pierre Martinez, speaking at a news conference at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Sunday.
"My name is Arturo Pierre Martinez. I'm a 29-year-old U.S. citizen born and bred in the city of El Paso, in the state of Texas. I have taken up a risky journey to the DPRK so that I can pass on some very valuable and disturbing information I felt that its government would appreciate," Martinez said.
Martinez spoke of human rights violations committed by the U.S. government and its attempts at forcing imp