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United Airlines also planned to operate a full schedule, though spokeswomen for both airlines cautioned travelers to check their flight status before heading to the airport.
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NKorea says it has detained a US citizen for unspecified 'crimes'
• PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Friday that it has detained an American citizen who has confessed to unspecified crimes.
• State media said in a short dispatch that someone named Pae Jun Ho entered North Korea on Nov. 3 as a tourist but was detained because of crimes.
• The North said the crimes were "proven through evidence" but didn't elaborate.
• Pyongyang has detained and eventually released several Americans in recent years. Some have been journalists and others Christians accused of religious proselytizing.
• In 2009, two journalists were detained after crossing into the North from China while on a reporting trip. They were later released .
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AP PHOTOS: AP photographer provides window on NKorea: endlessly fascinating, visually surreal
• PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- My window on North Korea is sometimes, quite literally, a window -- of a hotel room, the backseat of a car, a train. Fleeting moments of daily life present themselves suddenly, and they are opportunities to show a side of the country that is entirely at odds with the official portrait of marching troops and tightly coordinated pomp that the Pyongyang leadership presents to the world.
• In April, I was part of a group of international journalists that traveled by train to the launch site for this year's first, failed rocket test. We traveled in a spotless train used by the Communist leadership, and I spent the five-hour journey inside my sleeper car looking out the large, clean window at a rural landscape seen by few foreign eyes. The tracks cut across fields where large groups of farmers were at work in clusters. Occasionally, there was a plow drawn by oxen or a brick-red tractor rolling along the gravel roads. On a rocky hilltop above the train tracks, a small boy sprinted and waved at the passing train. Every few hundred yards along the entire route, local officials in drab coats stood guard, their backs to the tracks, until its (Continued on page 29)
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