在朝鮮被監禁的美國人之母探望兒子

The mother of an American missionary detained in North Korea for the past 11 months has arrived in Pyongyang to visit her son.

Myunghee Bae arrived in North Korea Thursday and was scheduled to meet with her son, Kenneth Bae Friday morning. She is expected to stay in the North for about five days.

Kenneth Bae was sentenced in May to 15 years of hard labor on a conviction of state subversion. His family says he has diabetes and is in ill health.

North Korea rescinded an offer in August to allow senior U.S. envoy Robert King to visit Pyongyang to petition that Bae be freed on humanitarian grounds. Officials said the visit was canceled because of annual joint U.S.-South Korean military drills being held in the South.被監禁在朝鮮的美國傳教士裴俊浩的母親抵達平壤探望兒子。裴俊浩已被監禁了11個月。

裴俊浩的母親星期四抵達朝鮮，被安排在星期五上午同兒子見面。預計，她將在朝鮮停留五天左右。

裴俊浩被控犯有顛覆國家政權罪，並於今年5月被判處15年強制勞動。裴俊浩的家人說，他患有糖尿病，健康狀況很差。

朝鮮本來提出准許美國特使羅伯特•金訪問平壤，他訪問的目的是說服朝鮮當局基於人道立場釋放裴俊浩，但朝鮮隨後收回了這一提議。有關官員說，取消這次訪問的原因是美韓軍隊在韓國舉行年度聯合軍事演習。