American Released from North Korean Captivity Says Conditions Weren’t Bad

FOWLE: "Throughout the whole process, I was treated fairly well. I was never physically abused. I always had --- I usually had too much to eat."
WELKER: "Too much to eat?"
FOWLE: "Oh, yeah."
WELKER: "What did they serve you?"
FOWLE: "Almost all -- almost every meal had rice and some kind of soup with it. And there's usually one or two side dishes of vegetables. And at the [indecipherable] particularly, I had a lot of meat there. That's the tourist hotel. That is a four-star hotel."
WELKER: "But you were isolated. You were all alone."
FOWLE: "Right."
WELKER: "Walk me through a typical day."
FOWLE: "For the first three and half weeks I was at the hotel [indecipherable] in Southern Pyongyang. And that was -- that arrangement was -- it's like the hotel-type suite. I was in the bedroom part with the restroom and in the [indecipherable] there was like a little miniature conference, like a glorified coffee table with four chairs. The first three and half weeks there they always had one of the guards there 24 hours a day, almost 24 hours a day, in the physical presence there --"
WELKER: “Outside apartment --" [crosstalk]
FOWLE: "In another part, and even through the night, they had somebody sleep there to make sure that I don't try to get out."