SEOUL (Reuters) - The mother of a U.S. missionary jailed in North Korea for state subversion pleaded on Tuesday for the U.S. government to help secure her ailing son's release as she ended a trip to see him.
Kenneth Bae, who was born in South Korea but is a naturalised U.S. citizen, was arrested late last year while on a visit to North Korea and sentenced to hard labour for 15 years in May.
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