Carter to visit North Korea over US prisoner
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Former US President Jimmy Carter will travel to North Korea very soon on a humanitarian mission to win the release of an American jailed for illegally entering the isolated country, a news report said. Carter, 85, would go as a private citizen, with no accompanying US officials, to secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, the US-based Foreign Policy journal reported on its Web site.
The reported visit would take place amid heightened tensions on the peninsula after the torpedoing in March of a South Korean warship, which Seoul blames on the North and which prompted Washington to announce expanded sanctions against Pyongyang. (Reuters)
