North Korea said in July it would put him and another detained US citizen, Jeffrey Fowle, on trial on unspecified charges related to “perpetrating hostile acts.”
On September 2, Miller — along with Fowle and a third US citizen being held in North Korea, Kenneth Bae — pleaded for their freedom as Pyongyang minders looked on in an interview with CNN.
They urged Washington to send an envoy to the isolated authoritarian state to negotiate their release.
“My situation is very urgent,” Miller said during the interview.
“I think this interview is my final chance to push the American government into helping me,” he added, wearing a dark turtleneck and often looking away from the interviewer.