COOPER: Breaking news in the case of the American Korean War vet who was pulled off a plane in North Korea and held captive for more than a month. Just moments ago we got word from North Korea's state run news agency that 85-year-old Merrill Newman has been deported. In other words, he is either coming out or already out of the country. Again, we can't independently confirm that. Paula Hancocks is monitoring late developments from Seoul, South Korea joins us now on the phone. What are you hearing there?</s>PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Well, Anderson, we're hearing from KCNA that Merrill Newman has been deported. The state run news media saying that Newman had tried to confirm the whereabouts and terrorists have been trained while he was in North Korea. This is why they had arrested him in the first place. They say he was part of a special operations team during the Korean War, which is working against North Korea. His family always said it was a case of mistaken identity. They said because he admitted to this crime, we saw that last weekend, he was reading out a sheet of paper admitting to this crime, we don't know if that was co co-horsed or not and because of his advanced age and health condition they deported him from a humanitarian view point. We're trying to decide if this is the case, if he's in Beijing or back to the United States. We're trying to confirm this.</s>COOPER: We don't know about his whereabouts or the condition he's in. We're showing you the video and still shots from the alleged confession he read on North Korean state television, he bowed at the end of it, clearly something written by the North Koreans or printed by the North Koreans. Paula, appreciate the reporting. We'll continue to follow this throughout the evening. That does it for this edition of 360. Thanks very much for watching. "PIERS MORGAN LIVE" starts after the break.
North Korean State TV: American Merrill Newman Deported