Sandra Suh

Sandra Suh is an American aid worker deported from North Korea in 2015 on charges of "using her humanitarian status as a cover to gather and produce anti-Pyongyang propaganda."

Humanitarian Efforts In 1989, Suh founded a California-based organization, Wheat Mission Ministries. The organization provides food aid and medical technology to North Korea. Suh was deported "on charges of using her humanitarian status as a cover to gather and produce anti-Pyongyang propaganda", visiting "under the pretense of humanitarianism", KCNA said "the decision to deport rather than detain her had been made "taking into full consideration her old age"".

, US Department of State spokeswoman Marie Harf could not tell why Suh was deported.