Visit the focus of food shortages of the Northern Korea: Carter - AFP

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BEIJING - A group of men of ancient State led by former President Jimmy Carter said that they will focus on the shortages of food, rights of man and denuclearization when they travel to the North Korea this week.

A delegation of the group "The Elders" of the former State leaders will visit Pyongyang Tuesday to seek ways to ease tensions on the North Korea nuclear weapons programs, they told a press conference in Beijing.

The Group of four members, headed by Carter, includes the former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, Prime Minister, ex-norvégien Gro Harlem Brundtland and former Irish President Mary Robinson.

In addition to discussing ways of advancing the multi-nation talks on Denuclearisation of North Korea, Carter said that he would seek ways to ease sanctions on Pyongyang, which have exacerbated a serious food crisis.

"This is a horrible situation and we hope to encourage other countries to help alleviate (the food crisis), including the South Korea, which cut all supplies of food materials to the North Koreans,"Carter said of the journalists."

"When there is an entire people sanctions, people suffer the most, and leaders are suffering least."

Robinson said one-third of the children of the Korea of the North suffered from delayed growth due to a lack of food, while almost 3.5 million people were vulnerable to the crisis growing which has seen the average food rations cut in half this year to 700 calories per day and per person.

"It is very, very important to ensure that women, children and elderly people do not suffer because of a political, said Robinson." We will be very well be highlighting this.

"We believe really that humanitarian issues and human rights are also very important."

Food agencies of the United Nations, which recently visited the North say more than six million people – a quarter of the population - urgently need food aid.

Carter said the delegation hopes to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, but for the moment such a meeting has not been announced. The trip was organized at the invitation of the Korea of the North.

The delegation was to meet with Minister of Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi China and other Chinese experts on the North Korea later Monday. The group, which will publish a report on their findings, will fly to Seoul Thursday.

Talks between the two Koreas, China, United States, Japan and Russia six-party disarmament became stalled since Pyongyang was released in April 2008 and made its second nuclear test staged a month later.

Cross-border tensions have been exacerbated when the North Korea bombed a border in November, killing four South Korean, including two civilians, and generate fears of war.

The first attack against civilians since the 1950-53 weeks Korea war after Pyongyang revealed an apparently operational uranium enrichment plant to American experts visit.

The North that it was a peaceful but experts energy project said that he could be reconfigured to produce weapons-grade uranium.

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Korea n confirms the American arrest - BBC News

April 14, 2011, update at 06: 46 GMT Korea of the North has us nationals detained in the past: Aijalon Gomes was held for seven months, the Korea of the North has confirmed that it has arrested an American citizen and is preparing to charge him with "a crime" against the country.

Jun Young-su was arrested in November last year, the official press said KCNA Agency.

The US State Department announced the arrest Tuesday and calls for the release of the detainee for humanitarian reasons.

The United States do not have the names, but said that Swedish diplomats had visited him.

The Embassy of Sweden in Pyongyang takes care of American interests, because there are no diplomatic relations between the Northern Korea and the United States.

Tours of the former

Korea of the North did not specify the crimes for which the man had been charged.

But South Korean media suggested that it was a Korean American business man who could be involved in Christian missionary work.

Korea of the North sees religious activity organized as a potential challenge to the leadership.

He held a number of American citizens in recent years.

Former President Jimmy Carter was the release of American citizen detainees of the Korea of the front North

In 2010, fervent Christian Aijalon Gomes was sentenced to forced labour for eight years for the opening of the North Korea. He was released after seven months when former US President Jimmy Carter flew to Pyongyang for talks.

Two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, took place several months after their arrest in 2009 for trespass on the border of the Korea in North of China. Former President Bill Clinton flew to Pyongyang to secure their release.

The news of the arrest of Mr. Jun comes ahead of another visit to Pyongyang by Mr. Carter.

He said he wants to discuss how to revive the impasse in the negotiations is to end the nuclear program of the Korea of the North.

Korea of the North has conducted two nuclear tests to date and tensions have been high on the Korean peninsula since the sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship.

The ship has decreased with the loss of 46 lives near the inter-Korean border disputed in March 2010. Seoul, said Pyongyang sank ship - Korea of North denies any role.

A North Korean artillery attack on an island in border in November which killed four South Koreans led relations deteriorate further.

Were Korea North to allow Mr. Jun to return home with Mr. Carter, critics see in a planned attempt by the Communist Government seems reasonable and if reliable political concessions and economic aidsays the BBC Nick Ravenscroft in Seoul.

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ID of the detained North American Korea

Tensions between the Korea of the North and West were enriched in recent years due to concerns on the nuclear program of Pyongyang.Jun Young Su was arrested in November 2010, KCNA reportsSources said that the prisoner is a Korean American State Department businessmanThe works on the case of the Embassy of Sweden in Korea PyongyangNorth a selected number of Americans in recent years

(CNN) - the Korea of the North has identified an American man detained, who had been arrested the year last for "committing a crime"against the nation seclusion, according to the State media."."

"U.S. citizen Jun Young Su was arrested in November 2010 and has since been studied by a relevant body to commit a crime against (North Korea) after you have entered it", the KCNA news agency reported Thursday. "He admitted his current crime of inquiry".

KCNA did not provide details on the nature of the alleged crime.

Two representatives of the Department of State, speaking provided it be not identified told CNN Tuesday that the man is a Korean American businessman. One of the sources stated that the businessman had a visa to enter the North Korea.

The State Department works in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, said the officials. The United States urges the authorities of North Korea, through the Swedish officials, to free the man for humanitarian reasons.

Sweden represents the interests of the Korea of North America, because the United States and the North Korea have no diplomatic relations.

Swedes were granted consular access to human and visited him, officials said. Swedish officials require regular visits, officials said.

CNN, a Swedish official in Stockholm has confirmed that the Embassy in Pyongyang is working on the case.

The sources refused to provide additional information due to privacy.

North Korea retained many Americans in recent years, increased levels of tension in what is already a rocky relationship between Pyongyang and Washington.

In 2010, former President Jimmy Carter helped secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an American citizen who had been sentenced to a fine of nearly $ 600,000 and sentenced to eight years of forced labour over the border to China North Korea.

Gomes, who tried to commit suicide in North Korean custody, was considered a Christian activist.

Two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had entered the North Korea in March 2009 and have been arrested and sentenced to 12 years of forced labour, were released in August 2009 after an intervention by the former President of the United States Bill Clinton.

Tensions between the Korea in North and West were enriched in recent years due in part to concerns over Pyongyang nuclear development program. The United States and the Korea of the South held military exercises joint in February, despite the Korea of warning North to the South did not perform the exercises, calling a provocation and threatening to engulf Seoul in "a sea of flames".

Korea of the South accused the North of the torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 marine and last November, the Korea of the North, to the island of Yeonpyeong, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.CNN Elise Labott and Paula Hancocks contributed to this report

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It is a US citizen, said Korea n.

Seoul, South (PA) Korea - the Korea of the North confirmed Thursday that he has arrested an American man for a crime unspecified against the country and to be preparing to charge him.

The man, named Jun Young Su, has occurred since last November, said Korean Central official Northern news agency. It is the last American citizen to be held in the Communist State reclus in recent years.

Korea North informed Washington on the situation and Jun is given the necessary humanitarian amenities including consular contact with representatives of the Embassy of Sweden in Pyongyang, the news agency said.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of State called for the North Korea to release one of its citizens and said Swedish officials had visited the American. But he gave no other information. United States - who took part in the sides of the Korea of the South during the war of 1950-53 Korea - have a diplomatic staff in the Northern Korea and the Sweden manages the interests of the State of Washington it.

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said Thursday that an American Korea with business interests in North Korea was detained for alleged Christian proselytizing. Yonhap, quoting the Korean Christian community of the United States, said the man is in his 60s, attends a Korean Church in Orange County, California and has a visa of the Korea of the North.

Several Americans were detained in Korea of the North in recent years and releasing often requires high level negotiations.

In August, former President Jimmy Carter has home Aijalon Gomes, who had been sentenced to forced labour eight years for the passage in the North of the China. He was detained for seven months in all.

Korean-American missionary Robert Park walked lost in North Korea on Christmas day in 2009 to draw attention to violations of the rights of the man of the North and to demand the resignation of leader Kim Jong-Il. He was released weeks later without charge.

Also in 2009, journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested for trespass in North Korea and emerged only after former President Bill Clinton made a trip to Pyongyang to seek their freedom.

The last arrest came that Carter plans to go to Pyongyang again from the beginning of this month.

Carter said last week it intends to concentrate to try and relaunch the negotiations of international disarmament on the nuclear program of North Korea and seek ways to help the humanitarian woes of the country.

The North seems to want to use the most recent detention to improve ties with the United States, said Yang Moo - jin, Professor at the University of Seoul on studies of North Korea. Still, given that the country was usually frees prisoners after charge and the sentence, it may not be enough time for Carter back during the next visit, Yang Jun, said.

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American detained in North Korea

American detained in North KoreaNEW: Sources say that the detainee is a Korean American State Department businessmanThe is working on the case of the Embassy of Sweden in Korea PyongyangNorth retained many Americans over the past years

(CNN) - a US man was detained in Northern Korea, two representatives of the State Department told CNN.

Diplomatic sources speaking provided it be not identified, said that the man is a Korean American businessman. One of the sources stated that the businessman had a visa to enter the North Korea.

The State Department works in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, said the officials. The United States urges the North Korean authorities, through the Swedish free the man for humanitarian reasons.

Sweden represents the interests of the Korea of North America, because the United States and the North Korea have no diplomatic relations.

Swedes were granted consular access to human and visited him, officials said. The Swedish require regular visits, the officials said.

CNN, a Swedish official in Stockholm has confirmed that the Embassy in Pyongyang is working on the case.

The sources refused to provide additional information due to privacy.

North Korea retained many Americans in recent years, increased levels of tension in what is already a rocky relationship between Pyongyang and Washington.

In 2010, former President Jimmy Carter helped secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an American citizen who had been sentenced to a fine of nearly $ 600,000 and sentenced to eight years of forced labour over the border to China North Korea.

Gomes, who tried to commit suicide in North Korean custody, was considered a Christian activist.

Two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had entered the North Korea in March 2009 and have been arrested and sentenced to 12 years of forced labour, were released in August 2009 after an intervention by the former President of the United States Bill Clinton.

Tensions between the Korea in North and West were enriched in recent years due in part to concerns over Pyongyang nuclear development program. The United States and the Korea of the South held military exercises joint in February, despite the Korea of warning North to the South did not perform the exercises, calling a provocation and threatening to engulf Seoul in "a sea of flames".

Korea of the South accused the North of the torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 marine and last November, the Korea of the North, to the island of Yeonpyeong, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.CNN's Paula Hancocks contributed to this report.

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