The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 22, 2014 North Korea Releases U.S. Prisoner ----------------------------------- North Korea has released an American prisoner who had been held for five months. Jeffrey Fowle was arrested in May for leaving a Bible in his hotel room. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said the United States is continuing to push for the release of two other Americans still imprisoned in North Korea — Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller. .