US missionary moved back to North Korean labour camp

Fears for the health of a US missionary being held in North Korea were growing today after it emerged he was moved from a hospital back to a labour camp last month.
The move came on the same day he made a public appeal for Washington to help get him home, a US. State Department official said.

Kenneth Bae, 45, has been held for more than a year in North Korea after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for trying to overthrow the state. From last summer until January, he had been kept at Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang,