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North Korea releases one American

October 21, 2014
Jeffrey Fowle, an American detained in North Korea, has been released. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Jeffrey Fowle, an American detained in North Korea, has been released. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

(AP) — Jeffrey Fowle, one of three Americans being held in North Korea, has been released, the State Department said Tuesday.

State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said Fowle was on his way home Tuesday after negotiators left Pyongyang. She said the U.S. is still trying to free Americans Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae.

Associated Press journalists in Pyongyang spotted the U.S. government plane at the capital’s international airport on Tuesday.

Fowle, 56, of Miamisburg, Ohio, had been awaiting trial on charges of leaving a Bible at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin last May.

Washington has tried for months to send a high-level envoy to North Korea to seek release of the three men.

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Associated Press reporters Eric Talmadge and Maye-E Wong contributed to this report.