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by Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) April 9, 2015 An American aid worker deported by North Korea on charges of using her humanitarian status as a cover to gather and produce anti-Pyongyang propaganda arrived in China Thursday, the US embassy said. Sandra Suh arrived at Beijing's Capital International Airport on a flight from Pyongyang, US embassy spokesman Nolan Barkhouse confirmed. Asked for details on when Suh might return to the US, Barkhouse declined to comment. Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency said Wednesday that Suh had been a frequent visitor to North Korea over the past 20 years "under the pretence of humanitarianism". She had "engaged in plot-breeding" and secretly taken photos and produced videos that had then been used as "propaganda abroad", KCNA said. According to the dispatch, Suh had admitted her crimes and "earnestly begged for pardon". KCNA said the decision to deport rather than detain her had been made "taking into full consideration her old age", without specifying how old she was. Sandra Suh is registered as having founded a California-based organisation, Wheat Mission Ministries, in 1989, to provide food aid and medical technology to North Korea. The organisation's website does not list Suh among its current staff and calls to its office in Los Angeles went unanswered. Like a number of other humanitarian groups working in North Korea, Wheat Mission Ministries has a Christian grounding. Pyongyang views foreign missionaries as seditious elements intent on fomenting unrest, but tolerates some faith-based aid groups.
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