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QUESTION: Marie, on release of Kenneth Bae --
MS. HARF: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: -- have you anything heard from North Korea recently?
MS. HARF: Have we heard anything from North Korea?
QUESTION: Yeah.
MS. HARF: Well – and let me just – on Kenneth Bae, I got asked this earlier in the
week, so let me give a few details: Department officials last spoke to his family on January
21st, 2014. The Embassy of Sweden, which obviously is our protecting power in Pyongyang, has
regularly sought consular access. They’ve met with him nine times since his detention,
most recently on December 30th, 2013. We have said very clearly that they should grant him
amnesty and release him to come home to his family. I just don’t have more details on
it than that.
QUESTION: But North Korea have any significant – he will be released for this sooner --
MS. HARF: Well, again, we’ve called on them to release him right away.
QUESTION: All right. Thank you.
MS. HARF: That’s it.
Yep.