By Kwang-tae Kim
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea
North Korea announced today that it will free an American missionary detained on Christmas Day for illegally crossing the border from China.
Robert Park of Tucson, Ariz., slipped across the frozen Tumen River from China into the North carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to close the country's notoriously brutal hair extensions wholesale prison camps and to step down from power, rights activists in Seoul said.
Lace front wigsNorth Korean media reported in a brief dispatch Dec. 29 that authorities had detained an American suspected of illegal entry but said nothing more about it until today, leaving his fate in question for weeks.
The 28-year-old missionary's detainment came nearly four months after two other Americans, journalists Euna Park and Laura Ling, were released with former President Bill Clinton's help after they were arrested at the border and sentenced to prison.
State media in Pyongyang said today that North Korea "decided to leniently forgive and release" Park after "taking his admission and sincere repentance of his wrongdoings into consideration."
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In Washington, the State Department said it had no immediate comment. The United States does not have diplomatic relations with North Korea, its adversary during the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. No further details about Park's release were available.
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