North Korea Sets Trial for U.S. Citizen

One of the three U.S. citizens currently detained in North Korea will be put on trial September 14. Matthew Miller, 26, was arrested in April for reportedly tearing up his visa and pleading for asylum, according to North Korea state media accounts at the time. "The Supreme Court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) decided to hold on September 14 a court trial on American Matthew Todd Miller, now in custody according to the indictment of a relevant institution," stated the official news agency KCNA. No other details were given. The trial date announcement comes just a week after Miller and the two other detained Americans, Jeffrey Fowle and Kenneth Bae, were granted the rare opportunity to speak on U.S. television. "My situation is very urgent," Miller said when he was interviewed on CNN. "I think this interview is my final chance to push the American government into helping me.”