US Spy Chief Reveals Inside Story On The Release Of Two American Captors In North Korea

U.S. Intelligence Chief Describes Mission to Free Detainees in North Korea -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — The director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., described on Sunday his secret mission to seek the release of two Americans held in North Korea as a series of grim encounters with officials who expressed disappointment that he had not come bearing a “breakthrough” in relations.

“I was quite apprehensive because we weren’t sure how this was going to play out,” Mr. Clapper said on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” offering a detailed description of the visit to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, this month. He said he had no certainty that the two Americans — Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller — would be freed until hours before he left North Korean soil.

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