An Ohio man detained for nearly half a year in North Korea
has landed back home.
Officials say a plane carrying Jeffrey Fowle landed
Wednesday morning at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton.
The State Department announced Tuesday that the 56-year-old
Miamisburg resident had been released. The news came about six months after he
was taken into custody after leaving a Bible at a nightclub. Christian
evangelism is considered a crime in North Korea.
He had been awaiting trial — the only one of three Americans
held by Pyongyang who had not been convicted of charges.
The two others were each sentenced to years in North Korean
prisons after court trials that lasted no more than 90 minutes. The three
Americans entered North Korea separately.
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