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WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. official says former President Jimmy Carter plans to travel to North Korea to bring back a detained American.
The official said late Monday that Carter is expected to depart today on a “purely humanitarian mission” to free Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who was arrested and sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor for entering North Korea illegally and for an unspecified “hostile act.” The U.S. official said no American officials will travel with Carter.
