Son: North Korea Detains Elderly U.S. Korean War Veteran

    (AP Photo)
    (AP Photo)

    North Korea is apparently holding an American veteran of the Korean War for unknown reasons after being removed from a plane in October.

    FOX News Radio’s Alastair Wanklyn has the story:

    Eighty-five year-old Merrill Newman from Palo Alto, California, seized in North Korea, his son says, as he wrapped up a tourist visit there. U.S. Envoy Glyn Davies today calling on North Korea:

    Davies: “To resolve the issue and to allow our citizens to go free.”

    The other known detainee is Kenneth Bae, held for more than a year. There’s no word why North Korea arrested Merrill Newman. But a fellow tourist says the Korean War vet had some kind of “difficult discussion” with officials there. Newman’s son says he needs medication — which the family has sent.

    In the Asia bureau, Alastair Wanklyn, Fox News Radio.