One of three detained Americans in North Korea is scheduled to begin trial next week, according to a short statement released by state media on Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
No further information as given on what charges Matthew Miller is facing, the AP reported.
Miller, of Bakersfield, California, will go to trial in North Korea on Sept. 14, the short statement said, according to the AP.
The 24-year-old was arrested in April for tearing up his visa upon his arrival in the isolated country, state media said at the time, the AP reported.
The statement did not mention fellow-U.S. citizen Jeffrey Fowle, 56, who was arrested in May after he left a Bible in the toilet of a sailor's club in the port town of Chongjin, according to the AP.
In a brief interview with the AP in Pyongyang last week, Miller and two other Americans held by North Korea, Jeffrey Fowle and Kenneth Bae, called for Washington to send a high-ranking U.S. representative to make a direct appeal for their freedom.
Bae, an American missionary, has been held by the isolated country since December 2012 and is currently serving a sentence of 15 years hard labor for crimes North Korea said amounted to a plot to overthrow the state, the AP reported. He said last week that his health has deteriorated at the labor camp where he works eight hours a day.
North Korea has often used detained Americans as bargaining chips with Washington in the past, senior statesmen, including former President Bill Clinton have made trips to Pyongyang to secure the release of detainees, according to the AP.
National Security Council spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the White House has "closely" followed their cases and that it is doing all it can to obtain their "earliest possible release," the AP reported.
