US Secretary of State John Kerry said today that the US did not enter any deal with North Korea for the release of Jeffery Fowle one of the detained Americans.
Jeffery Fowle, 56 was arrested in May for leaving a bible at a sailors club in Chongjin City Korea. He was freed on Tuesday and has since re-joined his family back home in the US.
Kerry says they are still very much concern with the other Americans still be held in North Korea. And hope that North Korean government will do the right thing and release them.
KCNA news agency in Korea said Kim Jong Un released the ''criminal'' after repeated requests from US President Barack Obama.
North Korea is isolated by other nations due to its nuclear weapons programmes. And for they to re-join the community of nations, it will have to drop its nuclear weapons programmes.
''We’ve said from day one that if North Korea wants to join the community of nations, it knows how to do it – it can come to the talks prepared to discuss denuclearisation," Kerry said.
"The United States is fully prepared, if they do that and begin that process, we are prepared to begin the process of reducing the need for American force and presence in the region because the threat itself will then be reduced''.
The U.S. presence in South Korea is a key source of anger to North Korea, which regularly threatens to attack the United States and destroy the South in a sea of flames.
Washington this month reiterated that Pyongyang must first take meaningful steps toward denuclearisation and refrain from provocative acts in order to resume talks.
Fowle was unexpectedly released amid growing international pressure. North Korea has been on a diplomatic campaign to counter charges by a U.N. body that highlighted widespread human rights abuses and a move by some U.N. members to refer the state to an international tribunal
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