In a concise report, Xinhua news office named the suspects as Kevin and Julia Garratt.
The State Security Bureau in Dandong was exploring the case, it said.
The couple run an espresso bar in Dandong right over the fringe from North Korea, Canadian daily paper the Globe and Mail reported.
The couple taught in southern China for a few years and after that moved to Dandong in 2008, where they opened Peter's Coffee House, the paper said.
As indicated by its site, the cafe is "just meters from the fringe of North Korea and Dandong's Friendship Bridge" and is "the ideal stop off while on the way to or coming back from the Hermit Kingdom".
Xinhua did not say whether the couple had been confined. A call from the BBC to the cafe was not replied.
Dandong is the fundamental China-North Korea outskirt intersection and exchange join.
Canada's international safe haven in Beijing told Reuters news office it was mindful of the reports and stood "prepared to give aid as needed".
Toward the end of last month, Canada proclaimed that a top government research association had been struck by Chinese "state-supported" programmers.
The Chinese international safe haven in Ottawa said rejected the report as a "baseless affirmation".
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