North Korea denounced former prisoner Kenneth Bae for spreading “false propaganda” and warned on Monday that continuing to speak out would affect the prospects for the release of two current American detainees.

The threat came in an article published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), which took exception to Bae’s public activities since his release in 2014.

“Korean American Bae Jun Ho (Kenneth Bae) is now cursed and censured by public for renewing his false propaganda about the DPRK,” the article reads, with North Korea referring to Bae by his Korean birth name.

“The DPRK will neither make any compromise nor