September 11, 2012
Cambodia has released a South Korean man arrested in April on charges
relating to the disappearance of a female North Korean restaurant
employee, a government official said Tuesday.
The 35-year-old,
surnamed Kim, arrived in Seoul earlier in the day after Cambodian
authorities decided to release him for lack of evidence, the official
said on condition of anonymity.
According to the Yonhap news
agency, Kim was arrested on April 25 at Phnom Penh airport on suspicion
of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
A former North
Korean refugee who became a South Korean national, he had been sought
by Cambodian police after a 25-year-old North Korean woman, who was
last seen leaving a hotel room with Kim, went missing in June last year.
North Korean diplomats claimed the woman had been kidnapped.
Cambodia has diplomatic relations with both North and South Korea.
The
North has opened restaurants under local franchises in several
countries. They are seen as a useful source of scarce foreign currency
for the cash-strapped regime.
Agence France-Presse
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