Tag: Otto Warmbier

North Korea: US citizens set for release ahead of Trump-Kim talks

May 3, 2018 North Korea Donald Trump, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong Wook, Kim Jong-Un, Missionaries, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim, USA

The three Americans have been detained on charges ranging from committing "hostile acts" against the regime to spying for a foreign country. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Three American citizens detained in North Korea seem set to be released ahead of a meeting between the two countries’ leaders next month. The BBC reported that the three men had been “relocated to a Pyongyang hotel and are receiving good food and medical care”. US President Donald Trump tweeted . . . Read More

North Korean defectors share ordeals with Pence in Seoul

February 12, 2018 North Korea North Korea, Otto Warmbier, USA

US Vice President Mike Pence, who travelled to Pyeongchang last week for the start of the Winter Olympic Games, met with North Korean defectors in Seoul on Friday (9 February), as reported on the White House website. Mr. Pence has been accompanied during his visit by the father of the . . . Read More

Otto Warmbier’s father joins Pence at Olympics to highlight North Korean abuses

February 9, 2018 Kim Jong-Un, Mike Pence, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, South Korea

As the Winter Olympics kick off in Pyeongchang, US Vice-President Mike Pence has arrived in South Korea with a guest – the father of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died shortly after being sent home from a North Korea prison in June last year. But, as the BBC reports, Mr. . . . Read More

Released Canadian Christian describes ‘harsh’ conditions inside N Korean labour camp

August 15, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, Otto Warmbier

Korean-Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim has spoken about his time in a North Korean labour camp, where he was detained for the last two and half years after being given a life sentence for charges including trying to overthrow the government. Lim, 62, appeared “slightly frail but in good spirits” when . . . Read More

North Korea frees Canadian church leader ‘on sick bail’

August 9, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kenneth Bae, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong Wook, Kim Seung-mo, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

Hyeun-soo Lim, the Korean Canadian church leader sentenced to life in prison with hard labour, has been freed today (9 August) “on sick bail”, says a North Korean state news agency. Convicted in December 2015 by the country’s Supreme Court of numerous charges, including an attempt to overthrow the government, he had been detained . . . Read More

Anger and tears as Otto ‘completes his journey home’

June 20, 2017 North Korea Donald Trump, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Seung-mo, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

The family of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier confirmed his death yesterday (19 June), just a week after he was released, in a coma, from 15 months’ detention in North Korea. In a statement, the family said it was their “sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his . . . Read More

Otto Warmbier’s father says ‘no excuse’ for North Korea to deny son medical care

June 15, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Seung-mo, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

The father of the 22-year-old American student released, in a coma, from North Korea this week says there’s “no excuse for a civilised nation to have kept his condition secret and to have denied him top-notch medical care”. Fred Warmbier said that he and his wife, Cindy, had gone for . . . Read More

North Korea frees US student Otto Warmbier ‘in coma’

June 13, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Seung-mo, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

North Korea has freed an American student detained since January 2016, and later sentenced to 15 years’ hard labour, for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from his Pyongyang hotel. Otto Warmbier, 22, is now on his way home, to be reunited with his family, according to US Secretary of . . . Read More

North Korea’s ‘Christian university’ in balancing act with regime

May 30, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong-Un, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

At a time when North Korea is flexing its military muscles and clamping down on anything that could threaten the rule of leader Kim Jong-un – including religion – the only private university in the country is run by evangelical Christians, explains the New York Times. Pyongyang University of Science and Technology . . . Read More

US Christian arrested for ‘hostile acts’ against North Korea

May 8, 2017 North Korea Donald Trump, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong Wook, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, Tony Kim

A fourth US citizen has been detained in North Korea, as he prepared to leave the country after working for several weeks at the Pyongyang University for Science and Technology, which trains the children of North Korea’s elite and which numbers Christians on its staff. The North Korean state-run news agency KCNA said . . . Read More

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