CNN spoke to Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle at a hotel in Pyongyang
Three Americans currently detained in North Korea have spoken about their conditions and pleaded for help from the U.S. government in interviews with CNN in Pyongyang.
Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle were each granted five minutes of interview time with journalist Will Ripley at a hotel in the North Korean capital on Monday.
Bae has been detained for two years, while Miller and Fowle are currently awaiting trial in the secretive state.
All three implored the U.S. government to send envoys to North Korea to help them, as happened when Bill Clinton helped in securing the release of two American journalists in 2009. All three said they had signed statements admitting their guilt.
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He said he was carrying doing eight hours of hard labor six days a week, but was being treated humanely.
He said he had been "back and forth from hospital to the labor camp for the past year and a half", and that his health had been "failing" for the past month and a half with severe back pain, sleep problems and issues with his blood circulation.
Bae suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney stones.
He asked his family to "continue to pray" for him.
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