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TOKYO — North Korea has sentenced Matthew Miller to six years of hard labor for committing “hostile acts,” after the American reportedly ripped up his tourist visa upon arrival at the Pyongyang airport in April.
During a show trial that lasted 90 minutes, the Supreme Court found that Miller, who had no legal representation, had committed “acts hostile to the DPRK while entering . . . under the guise of a tourist,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported, using the official abbreviation for North Korea.
Analysts say that Pyongyang is using the men as bargaining chips in its long-running dispute with Washington over its nuclear program but that the United States is currently preoccupied with the turmoil in the Middle East, where Islamic State extremists are not just capturing Westerners but beheading them.
KCNA photos showed Miller, looking pale and wearing a black turtleneck despite it being summer, in a courtroom decorated with a North Korean flag.