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Detained Australian Leaves North Korea, Arrives in China

Associated Press

   CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - An Australian student released after a week in
   detention in North Korea described his condition to reporters in
   Beijing on Thursday as "very good," without saying what happened.

   Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced to Parliament that
   Alek Sigley, 29, had been released hours earlier following intervention
   from Swedish diplomats Wednesday, and had been taken to the Australian
   Embassy in Beijing.

   Sigley looked relaxed and gave a peace sign when he arrived at Beijing
   airport. He did not respond to reporters' questions about what had
   happened in Pyongyang.

   "I'm OK, I'm OK, I'm good. I'm very good," Sigley said. Asked how he
   was feeling, Sigley replied: "Great."

   His father, Gary Sigley, a professor of Asian studies at University of
   Western Australia, said his son would soon be reunited with his
   Japanese wife, Yuka Morinaga, in Tokyo.

   "He's fine. He's in very good spirits. He's been treated well," the
   father told reporters in his hometown of Perth.

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