Release of three Americans in N Korea a 'top priority'

he White House has verbally expressed securing the relinquishment of three American citizens detained in North Korea is a "top priority" and it is doing all it can.

The verbalization was made in replication to a televised appeal by the Americans asking for avail from the US regime.

Kenneth Bae, 46, has been held in North Korea since 2012 and is currently in a labour camp outside Pyongyang.

Jeffrey Fowle, 56, and Matthew Miller, 24, are charged with infringing North Korean law and are awaiting tribulation.

North Korea has a history of utilizing detainees as bargaining chips.

In the past, Americans held by Pyongyang have been liberated after senior US figures, including former President Bill Clinton, travelled to the country to negotiate.

The US has offered an abundance of times to send Robert King, its special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, to Pyongyang to discuss the detainees, but these visits have been cancelled by Pyongyang.
'Waiting'

The three verbalized with CNN and the Associated Press on Monday with North Korea officials present.

Each man was interviewed discretely for five minutes in different hotel rooms in the capital Pyongyang.

All asked for a US representative to go to North Korea to make a direct appeal for their relinquishment.

"We have optically discerned the reports of interviews with the three American citizens detained in North Korea," White House spokesman, Patrick Ventrell, verbalized in a verbal expression.

"Securing the relinquishment of US citizens is a top priority and we have followed these cases proximately in the White House. We perpetuate to do all we can to secure their earliest possible release," he verbalized.

In his interview, Mr Bae verbalized he had been hospitalised for health quandaries which included back pain, a slumber disorder and weight loss.

The Korean American missionary is accommodating a sentence of 15 years of hard labour in a camp outside Pyongyang after being convicted of endeavoring to overthrow the regime.

"The only hope that I have is to have someone from the US come," he verbalized.

"But so far, the latest I've auricularly discerned is that there has been no replication yet. So I believe that officials here are waiting for that," he verbalized.

Mr Bae verbalized he was not vigilant he had contravened North Korean law and asked for forgiveness.

The other two detainees, Mr Fowle and Mr Miller, told heralds they expected to face tribulation within a month, but did not ken what the concrete charges were against them.

Mr Fowle arrived in North Korea in April and was held when he endeavored to leave the country, according to North Korean news agency KCNA.

Reports in the Japanese press verbally express Mr Fowle was suspected of leaving a Bible in a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin. Christian proselytising is considered a malefaction in North Korea.

Mr Miller was withal apprehended in April after he reportedly tore up his tourist visa at the airport and shouted he wanted asylum, according to KCNA.

"I've been requesting avail for a long time and there's been no kineticism from my regime," Mr Miller told CNN.

Mr Fowle and Mr Miller have verbalized they expect to face tribulation within a month. But they verbally expressed they do not ken what penalization they could face or what they are inculpated of.