Tag: Hyeon Soo Lim

North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ labour

March 16, 2016 North Korea House churches, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Jong Wook, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang

North Korea has sentenced a 21-year-old US student to 15 years’ hard labour following his “confession” to stealing a piece of political propaganda during his trip at the request of his church in Wyoming, Ohio. Otto Warmbier, a third-year economics student at the University of Virginia, was arrested on 2 . . . Read More

N Korea detains US man ‘stealing’ for his church

February 29, 2016 North Korea China, Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, USA

A US student held in North Korea since early January was detained for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his Pyongyang hotel and has confessed to “severe crimes” against the state, . Otto Warmbier, 21, a student at the University of Virginia, was detained before boarding . . . Read More

North Korea-held US-Korean ‘spy’ said to be pastor

January 14, 2016 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, North Korea, USA

A Korean-American in detention in North Korea is in fact a Christian pastor, not a spy, according to a North Korean defector who met him in 2007, . On 11 Jan., the American broadcaster, CNN, was allowed to interview Kim Dong Chul in the presence of North Korean officials. He . . . Read More

‘Tolerated’ Christianity in N Korea?

August 4, 2015 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, USA

In the first of a series about the worst places in the world for Christian persecution, BBC reporter Stephen Evans finds that Christians in North Korea are tolerated in some areas so long as they do not proselytise by, for example, handing out bibles. North Korea has topped the Open . . . Read More

N Korea parades missing pastor at press conference

August 3, 2015 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, Pyongyang

Korean-Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim, who went missing during a visit to North Korea in January, took part in a press conference on 30 July in which he read a prepared statement admitting alleged crimes against the state, reports NK News. He later made his ‘confession’ before a Pyongyang church . . . Read More

N Korea says Canadian pastor ‘admits’ espionage

July 30, 2015 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, South Korea

A Canadian pastor arrested in North Korea in March has made a statement in which he says he tried to undermine the government. Hyeon-soo Lim, a native of South Korea and Canadian citizen who serves in , told a news conference in Pyongyang his humanitarian work in North Korea has . . . Read More

Canada confirms pastor detained in North Korea

March 6, 2015 North Korea China, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kenneth Bae, North Korea, South Korea, USA

The Canadian government has confirmed to the family of pastor Hyeon Soo Lim that he has been detained in North Korea. This follows earlier reports that nobody had heard from Lim, 60, since he crossed the Chinese border on 31 January. Lim, who is married with one son, grew up . . . Read More

Canadian pastor ‘not heard from’ in North Korea

March 3, 2015 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, South Korea, USA

The head pastor of a large Canadian church has failed to return from a humanitarian visit to North Korea. Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, 60, had made hundreds of trips to the secretive state where he helped oversee an orphanage, a nursery and a nursing home. Speaking on behalf of the . . . Read More

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