Pyongyang Tries To Use American Prisoner For Leverage

Responding to criticism over the sinking of a South Korean ship, North Korea has threatened to impose harsher punishment on a U.S. citizen already serving eight years of hard labor, the BBC reports.

Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a former English teacher in South Korea, was arrested in January after illegally crossing into North Korea from China.

Pyongyang said it would use wartime law against Gomes if the U.S. continued its "hostile approach" over the sinking of the South Korean...