North Korea has deported a U.S. citizen as she was suspected of plotting and propagandizing against the communist regime under the name of doing humanitarian works, the North's official media said Wednesday.
  

The North's Korean Central News Agency said that Suh Sandra was accused of doing anti-Pyongyang propaganda abroad with photos and videos about the North through her frequent visits under the pretense of "humanitarianism" since 1998.
  

"She admitted that her acts are ones that seriously insulted the absolute trust of the people of the DPRK in their leader and indelible crimes that infringed on its sovereignty in violation of its law," the KCNA said in its English dispatch.
  

DPRK is the acronym for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.
  

"She apologized for her crimes and earnestly begged for pardon," it added.
  

The KCNA said that North Korea decided to deport her, rather than hold her custody, by taking into account her old age and the "generosity" of the North's law.
  

But it did not elaborate on her age and the period of her recent stay in North Korea.
  

Last year, North Korea release three American citizens -- Jeffrey Edward Fowle, Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller -- who had been detained for years due to unspecified anti-state crimes. (Yonhap)