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North Korea accuses US authorities of 'mugging' at New York City airport
Source: Reuters
North Korea accuses US authorities of 'mugging' at New York City airport
Reuters in Seoul
Sunday 18 June 2017 16.43 BST
North Korea accused US authorities on Sunday of “mugging” its diplomats at John F Kennedy airport in New York, forcibly confiscating a diplomatic package which it said raised questions about the city as the seat of the United Nations.
The claim came amid diplomatic tensions after North Korea released American student Otto Warmbier, whose parents said he was in a coma after being held by the north for 17 months.
Warmbier, 22, who arrived in the US on Tuesday, is stable but “shows no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding”, a doctor at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said.
A foreign ministry spokesman said a delegation from North Korea returning from a UN conference on the rights of persons with disabilities “was literally mugged” at JFK in “an illegal and heinous act of provocation”.
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Reuters in Seoul
Sunday 18 June 2017 16.43 BST
North Korea accused US authorities on Sunday of “mugging” its diplomats at John F Kennedy airport in New York, forcibly confiscating a diplomatic package which it said raised questions about the city as the seat of the United Nations.
The claim came amid diplomatic tensions after North Korea released American student Otto Warmbier, whose parents said he was in a coma after being held by the north for 17 months.
Warmbier, 22, who arrived in the US on Tuesday, is stable but “shows no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding”, a doctor at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said.
A foreign ministry spokesman said a delegation from North Korea returning from a UN conference on the rights of persons with disabilities “was literally mugged” at JFK in “an illegal and heinous act of provocation”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/18/north-korea-jfk-airport-mugging-united-nations
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