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North Korea: Canadian pastor admitted 'subversive plots' in public interrogation
Source: The Guardian and agencies
North Korea: Canadian pastor admitted 'subversive plots' in public interrogation
Staff and agencies
Friday 31 July 2015 01.59 BST
North Korea says a Canadian pastor detained since January had admitted to planning “subversive plots” but his supporters said he was only doing humanitarian work.
Reverend Hyeon Soo-lim, of the Light Korean Presbyterian church in Toronto, was detained by North Korean authorities in January just after he arrived from China, according to Canadian consular officials.
Pyongyang’s KCNA news agency, using its usual pugnacious rhetoric, said on Thursday Lim had admitted in a public interrogation to carrying out “subversive plots and activities in a sinister bid to build a religious state in the DPRK”.
The regime has previously held staged public confessions in similar cases where prisoners are effectively forced to read from a prepared text.
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Staff and agencies
Friday 31 July 2015 01.59 BST
North Korea says a Canadian pastor detained since January had admitted to planning “subversive plots” but his supporters said he was only doing humanitarian work.
Reverend Hyeon Soo-lim, of the Light Korean Presbyterian church in Toronto, was detained by North Korean authorities in January just after he arrived from China, according to Canadian consular officials.
Pyongyang’s KCNA news agency, using its usual pugnacious rhetoric, said on Thursday Lim had admitted in a public interrogation to carrying out “subversive plots and activities in a sinister bid to build a religious state in the DPRK”.
The regime has previously held staged public confessions in similar cases where prisoners are effectively forced to read from a prepared text.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/north-korea-canadian-pastor-admitted-subversive-plots-in-public-interrogation
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