North Korea says it has detained two Japanese businessmen for crimes involving drugs and counterfeit money.
The official Korean Central News Agency also said Wednesday that it deported another Japanese businessman for the same crimes.
North Korea says the three Japanese came to the northeastern city of Rason in March.
The dispatch calls the crimes "very grave" but doesn’t elaborate.
It also doesn’t say why the North expelled the third person.
The news came three weeks after the North said it was holding an American man for committing an unspecified crime against the country. He’s the latest in a string of U.S. nationals detained in the communist country in recent years.
