North Korea says an Australian student who had been detained for several days before being released had been "spying" for news outlets, APA reports citing BBC.
Alek Sigley, 29, was reported missing in late June, but was freed on Thursday after Swedish officials in Pyongyang met the North Korean government.
NK News, one of the websites to publish his writing, has rejected Pyongyang's claims that he spied for them.
It said his columns only "presented an apolitical view of life in Pyongyang".
Mr Sigley, a fluent Korean speaker, had been living in Pyongyang while studying a Master's at Kim Il-sung university and running a tourism business.
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