According to the website of The Wall Street Journal that Pyongyang had informed the United States early November it was ready to receive a US delegation led by senior officials to discuss the issue of the release of Kenneth Bay and Matthew Todd Miller.

In the hours that followed, the White House decided to send Clapper after after a strategic meeting to determine "what must be said and what should not be said," he Clapper told the newspaper.

He left Washington Clapper fourth night of November commented day and a half in Hawaii due to hit the plane carrying him malfunction.

On the seventh of November was received by the Minister of State Security, General Kim Wong Hong. He then boarded a car with a number of escorts for the trip "without end" lasted 45 minutes.

Clapper said that the discussions "began with (Gen.) Kim immediately. Breakthrough was expected and what I am I will present something important or recognition or a peace agreement, it does not matter." "Certainly I was not there for this purpose, and this is what triggered disappointment."

This was followed by a dinner at a restaurant in which 12 feet, according lasted three hours, the audience talked about geopolitical issues on the Korean peninsula. After that Clapper gave President Barack Obama a message written in English.

Clapper described the letter as a special envoy of President described the launch of the American release of "positive initiative", but did not include "any apologies."

The following day, Clapper stayed in his room while he went to the doctor who accompanied him to visit Bay and Miller. He did not have what he read only two magazines Daaúatin Tdman pictures of North Korean picking apples smiling and preparing seafood.

In the middle of the day, he announced his official "inventory of calls" is no longer considered an envoy to Obama. Therefore, "the North Korean government can no longer guarantee security."

Three hours later told the delegation that the front 20 minutes to pack his luggage. Everyone was taken to a luxury hotel where they found waiting for them officials from the prosecutor's office, while he was taken Alamirkiyan incarcerated prisoners dressed to the lobby.

Clapper said that "Kim turned to me and said he hoped to be able to engage in the future, but not on the detainees." He said the US official that he shook hands with North Korean official and thanks.

On the way to the airport, across a young North Korean lamented the division of Korea and asked Clapper whether to return to Pyongyang. Clapper said, "I think it really raises optimism."

The US State Department said in a statement a week before he was released two Americans were detained by the North Korean government. Foreign and said it welcomed the release of American citizens Kenneth Bay and Matthew Todd Miller of North Korea, where they were being held, one of them two years ago and the last seven months ago. "

The freed after two weeks of the launch of the US release of Jeffrey Faull, 56, who was jailed in April in North Korea, too, after leaving a copy of the Gospel in a nightclub bathroom.

He was arrested Bay (42 years), a Korean American missionary in November 2012 and sentenced later sentenced to 15 years with hard labor. But Miller, 24, was sentenced by the North Korean Supreme Court sentenced to six years with hard labor after he was arrested in April and accused of tearing up his visa and his refugee claim.

Washington condemned Pyongyang for its detention of Americans, said the arrest came for diplomatic concessions.