Opinion: The time North Korea entrapped an 85-year-old American tourist

Almost a decade ago, another American was famously detained in North Korea. Mike Chinoy writes on the remarkable story Merrill Newman, an 85-year-old American tourist and Korean War veteran, who was detained for 42 days.

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