PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.

The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since early November, further complicates already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington following weeks of heightened rhetoric and tensions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/27/kenneth-bae-charged-north-korea-plot_n_3171167.html

Possibly he was trying to do the same thing we did with Libya and Syria.