Authorities on Saturday detained Kim Hak-song, an employee at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. If confirmed, it would make him the fourth American to be held by the totalitarian state as diplomatic tensions with Washington increase.
North Korea has detained another United States citizen for committing "hostile acts", it said Sunday, its second arrest of an American in a fortnight with tensions high between Pyongyang and Washington.
Kim Dong-chul, who is in his early 60s and was born in South Korea but became a USA citizen in 1987, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last April on charges of spying.
The isolated nation alleged on Friday that the USA and South Korea had worked with a "hideous terrorist group" in a bungled assassination plot against supreme leader Kim Jong-un.
The State Department acknowledged the new detention.
Pyongyang University of Science and Technology told CBS News it can't comment yet, but will release a statement.
Evangelical Christians founded the school in 2010. Pupils are generally children from the North's elite.
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North Korea says it has detained a U.S. citizen on suspicion of "hostile acts" against the state.
Two months later, Kim Dong Chul was sentenced to 10 years hard labor for subversion. It said he was "intercepted for committing criminal acts" to overthrow the North's government. The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology is the country's only private university and has a large number of foreign staff members.
This would bring the tally to four USA citizens held by the reclusive nation.
Otto Warmbier, a US student, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea.
When 13 North Korea restaurant workers in China defected to the South past year, Pyongyang claimed that South Korean spies kidnapped the workers.
Pyongyang's latest actions come amid rising tensions with Washington over the North's nuclear program and ballistic missile tests.
South Korea's unification ministry said Monday that it is verifying information about North Korea's latest detainment of another U.S. citizen.
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