Tourists dressed in traditional Korean costumes visit the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul
"The Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations issues a press statement with regard that the United States talked nonsense of linking an recent (sic) incident of hacking database of Security Council 1718 Sanctions Committee of the United Nations to the DPRK", it read.
Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang-duk - or Tony Kim - were both working at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, founded by evangelical Christians from overseas, when they were detained a year ago on suspicion of "hostile acts".
This picture from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) taken and released on January 1, 2018 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un delivering a New Year's speech at an undisclosed location.
Kim's comments come after South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un agreed last Friday on a common goal of a "nuclear free" peninsula, and to "adopt practical steps towards the connection and modernization of the railways and roads".
Tony Kim's son said his father was teaching accounting at PUST.
Kim was a professor at Pyongyang University for Science and Technology (PUST), the country's only privately-run academic institution.
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Kim Dong Chul, 64, was arrested in October 2015 and has been serving a 10-year term with hard labor for alleged espionage.
The U.S. government said it is looking into reports that the three Americans had been relocated from a labor camp to a hotel near Pyongyang ahead of the Kim-Trump summit.
"We are hopeful but we have no indication that they have been released". The interview was conducted in the presence of North Korean officials, so CNN could not determine whether Kim's comments were made under duress.
President Donald Trump earlier on Wednesday alluded to the release in a tweet.
"We're setting up meetings right now and I think it's probably going to be announced over the next couple of days, location, and date", Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday.
It's been reported that Chul was a pastor, and in his public "confession", Kim said he was a spy for the South Korea intelligence service and was trying to spread Christianity among North Koreans.
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