North Korea again displayed U.S. citizen Matthew Miller in front of foreign media on Thursday, picturing him beginning his six year sentence of hard labor for what state media has called “espionage”.

In a heavily monitored interview with the Associated Press (AP), the only western news agency currently with an in-country presence, Miller described the type of labor he has been expected to do and the conditions of his internment.

“Prison life is eight hours of work per day. Mostly it’s been agriculture, like in the dirt, digging around. Other than that, it’s isolation, no contact with anyone,” Miller said