Tension is high following a massive military parade and missile test
There's an information that a man, an American, only identified by a surname, Kim, has been detained in N/ Korea as he tried to leave the country.
Kim became the third American to be so detained by the North Korea. One has been sentenced for spying, the other for trying to steal a sign from a hotel.
The latest detention comes amid high tension on the peninsula, with the United States warning its "strategic patience" on the North Korean's nuclear programme is over.
A United States naval battle group headed by an aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, and described by President Donald Trump as an "armada", is expected to reach the Korean peninsula later in the week.
The S/Korean news agency, Yonhap said the detained American citizen, in his 50s, was a former professor from Yanbian University in China and had been in North Korea for a month in connection with relief programmes.
The Professor was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport, Yonhap said.
In last year January, United States student Otto Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea.Otto was sentenced for 15 years with hard labour for crimes against the state in March 2016.
Kim Dong-chul, a 62-year-old naturalised US citizen born in South Korea was in last year April, sentenced 10 years,for spying. Dong-chul had been arrested the previous October.
The United States, has in the past accused North Korea of detaining its citizens to use them as pawns.
After the brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was murdered recently in Malaysia, Malaysian citizens in Pyongyang were arrested and held until North Koreans suspected of the murder were released in Kuala Lumpur.
Tension remains high on the peninsula following the North Korean recent failed missile test and massive military parade showing off its latest hardware.
North Korea has said it is ready to sink the Carl Vinson, and on Sunday said it would strike Australia with nuclear weapons if it remained an ally of the US.
The aim of the Country (N/Korea), is to develop nuclear weapons small enough to put on ballistic missiles, but there is no evidence yet it has done so, or that it has missiles with the range to reach long-distance targets.
The United States Secretary of States,Rex Tillerson, this week This week on a tour of Asian nations, said the Unitef States was "reviewing all the status of North Korea, both in terms of state sponsorship of terrorism as well as the other ways in which we can bring pressure on the regime in Pyongyang".
North Korean media responded by warning of an unspecified "super-mighty pre-emptive strike".
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