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SEOUL, South Korea — An American imprisoned in North Korea was allowed to speak to his mother by telephone, but Pyongyang’s state media and his family provided few details and no clues whether he would be released.
North Korea’s highest court sentenced Aijalon Mahli Gomes to eight years of hard labor and fined him $700,000 on April 6 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified “hostile act.”
The official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday that Gomes spoke with family Jan. 25, the day of his arrest.
