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N. Korea deports US humanitarian worker by ‘generosity’ of country’s laws

April 8, 2015
In this image taken from video North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, waves to spectators and participants during a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the country's founding, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video)

In this image taken from video North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, waves to spectators and participants during a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the country’s founding, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video)

SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) — North Korea has deported a U.S. citizen as she was suspected of plotting and propagandizing against the communist regime under the name of doing humanitarian works, the North’s official media said Wednesday.

The North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Sandra Suh was accused of doing anti-Pyongyang propaganda abroad with photos and videos about the North through her frequent visits under the pretense of “humanitarianism” since 1998.

“She admitted that her acts are ones that seriously insulted the absolute trust of the people of the DPRK in their leader and indelible crimes that infringed on its sovereignty in violation of its law,” the KCNA said in its English dispatch.
DPRK is the acronym for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the North’s official name.

The KCNA said that North Korea decided to deport her, rather than hold her custody, by taking into account her old age and the “generosity” of the North’s law, but it did not elaborate on her age and the period of her recent stay in North Korea.