Seoul (ANTARA News) - North Korea (North Korea) on Friday confirmed that it arrested a citizen of the United States in November, and admitted not determine the specific allegations and hinted he would be formally charged. man, identified as Pae Jun-Ho , entered North Korea on 3 November as a tourist, and a "crime" against the country, the official news agency Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "He was taken into custody by the relevant agencies," he added. U.S. do not have diplomatic relations with North Korea and the KCNA said consular officials from the Swedish embassy, ​​acting on behalf of the United States, have visited Pae on Friday. "In the process of investigation, proved that he committed a crime against the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea - North Korea's official name ) revealed. He admitted his crime, "the agency said. "legal measures taken against Pae line with the procedures of criminal law," he added, without elaborating. Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesman Patrick Ventrell confirmed that U.S. citizens had been detained in North Korea. "Swedish Embassy, ​​which is representative who protect us in Pyongyang, has been given consular access and provide all appropriate consular assistance," he said. "But because of privacy considerations, that's as far as we can tell about it right now. ' arrest was first reported earlier this month by a South Korean newspaper, Kookmin Ilbo, which has identified the prisoner as clerk excursions Korean-Americans aged 44 years. news said he was traveling with five other tourists and detained when pieces `` computer hard disk was found among the belongings of the group. KCNA said, Pae was arrested as he entered the northeastern port city of Rason, located in a special economic zone near the North Korean border with Russia and China. Several Americans have been detained in North Korea in recent years. In 2011, the U.S. delegation led by Robert King, special envoy for North Korean human rights, freeing June Eddie Yong-Su, an entrepreneur based in California, was arrested for missionary activity. In 2010, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter won praise when he negotiated the release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who dujatuhi sentenced to eight years of hard labor for illegally crossing into North Korea from China. On another mission a year earlier in 2009, former president Bill Clinton win release of U.S. television journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who was jailed after crossing the North Korean border with China. (H-AK)