North Korea Sentences Canadian Pastor to Hard Labor for Life

Xinhua had no further details. North Korea’s official KCNA news agency has not reported on the court’s decision.

 

North Korea has previously sentenced a Korean-American missionary, Kenneth Bae, to 15 years of hard labor but released him last year after holding him for two years.

 

In July, Lim appeared at a news conference in North Korea and confessed that he had traveled to the country on the pretext of humanitarian work and gathered information that he used in sermons outside the country to drive the regime to a collapse “with the love of God.”

 

His church, the 3,000-member Light Korean Presbyterian Church, has said Lim had visited the North more than 100 times since 1997 and has helped establish an orphanage and a nursing home there.

 

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