Washington Denies Claim of 'American Spy' Captured in North Korea

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Enduring wave of tensions in the Korean peninsula immediately deteriorated following North Korea’s belligerent decision to conduct its fourth nuclear test attempt with earlier claims suggesting that a hydrogen bomb was tested on January 6.

Relation worsened as the U.S responded with a similarly pugnacious action by launching a long-range B-52 bomber over South Korea in order to assure its equally potent capability.

Neighboring South Korea concentrates on maintaining anti-Pyongyang propaganda whereas its counterparts all across the globe, especially the main actors of the UN Security Council focus on renewing or establishing more intense sanctions which they believe could help contain the power to which North Korea sought to extend.

Amid ‘Cold-War’ like condition in the Korean peninsula which involuntarily caused for a collection of predominantly pejorative reactions at a global scale, a man claiming to be a spy from the United States was recently detained by the authorities in Pyongyang over espionage charges.

CNN successfully gained an exclusive access yielded by high-level officials of Pyongyang government to the arrested 62-year-old Kim Dong Chul and allowed to conduct an interview at one of the hotels in North Korea capital where official translator was already provided by the government of such reclusive state.

As Kim was being interviewed by CNN, he went to share how he assumes role as a businessman who resides most of the time in China but traveled on a religious basis including to conflicting region which in this case means that he has been in and out of North Korea for several times with business exploited as his basic reasoning to gain permit and allowed entrance into the region.

According to CBSnews, State Department official in Washington whose name and position refused to be publicly informed due to high level of sensitivity of the case, rejected the claim made by Kim regarding his status as an American agent.

Official explained that failure to remain discreet about “specific purported cases of detained Americans can complicate our tireless efforts to secure their freedom.”

Official further explained how the reclusive state had been exploiting such specific method of detaining foreign nationals to serve as “leverage in its dealings with the West.

Bloomberg describes Kim who was interviewed by CNN as an indoctrinated man judging from the alleged spy’s earlier claim of commencing the intelligence role “after unidentified South Koreans filled me with a hatred toward North Korea”.

So, according to his take with CNN, Kim was serving his duty to support the notion and gradual attainment as well as widespread of “South Korean conservative elements”.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Services similarly denied any connection to Kim who was captured by North Korean authorities last October.

The immediate repercussion to this is the imminent high-level meeting between diplomats from Japan, South Korea and the U.S in both Seoul and Tokyo to impose what Bloomberg describes as ‘tougher sanction’ against the authoritarian regime.