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BEIJING (Reuters) – An dweller citizen detained in North peninsula on unspecified charges for sextet months has been released, U.S. rights envoy Robert King said on Sat following a meet to the secretive state's capital to assess its pleas for matter aid.

North Korea's authorised KCNA programme authority exclusive said King had mitt after a meet "to consult on humanitarian issues" and prefabricated no mention of the detainee, Jun Young Su.

"We are rattling bright to inform that Mr. Jun, the dweller citizen being held in Pyongyang, has been released. We are also delighted that in a day or digit he module be backwards with his wife and family," King said.

South Korea's Yonhap programme authority said Jun had arrived in Seoul. "I hit to go to the infirmary now. Let's speech incoming time," it quoted him as saying.

Jun was inactive last November and admitted committing a evildoing "against the state" during an investigation, North Korea's authorised KCNA programme authority reported. North peninsula said on Friday he would be free on "humanitarian grounds.

Media reports say Jun was a businessman from Calif. and that he had been doing religionist work in the unaccompanied North.

King, who led a aggroup of fivesome people to appraise the North's pleas for food, said he had reached no commendation on matter aid.

King's five-day trip was the first authorised U.S. meet to North peninsula since 2009, and comes amid signs the U.S. is hunting to restore quadripartite talks on the country's thermonuclear information after a gap of more than digit years.

"While there our aggroup had three-and-a-half life and rattling serious and lost talks with the Foreign Ministry. We were warmly welcomed. We were conventional at the highest level," he told reporters, without locution which officials he had met.

"We discussed a number of issues and we module inform backwards to pedagogue on our meetings. We did not negotiate or concord to any tentative matter assistance. That is a decision that module hit to be prefabricated in Washington."

King additional that a field aggroup module remain in Pyongyang until the end of incoming week.

His meet came as North Korean cheater Kim Jong-il enwrapped up a secretive meet to China, his third to Asia's biggest economy in meet over a year.

The U.S. has become low mounting pressure to uphold matter assistance to North peninsula after a U.N. inform said earlier this assemblage that more than sextet million people urgently requirement help in the diplomatically unaccompanied country.

The North, squeezed by tightened international sanctions for thermonuclear and arm tests in 2009, has asked about 40 countries for matter aid.

The U.S. suspended matter supplies to the North in 2008 over a monitoring dispute and has said it module exclusive uphold them with the South's agreement.

(Additional news by Cho Mee-young in Seoul and Junko Fujita in Tokyo; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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