Lim Hyeon-soo doesn’t come off as the type of person that would try to overthrow Kim Jong Un. Yet, that’s exactly what North Korea charged the 62-year-old pastor with trying to do.
Lim, a South Korean-born Canadian citizen who vanished on a routine trip to the DPRK in 2015, spent more than two-and-a-half years locked up in North Korea, becoming the country’s longest-held western prisoner since the Korean War.
Lim Hyeon-soo doesn’t come off as the type of person that would try to overthrow Kim Jong Un. Yet, that’s exactly what North Korea charged the 62-year-old pastor with trying to do.
Lim, a South Korean-born Canadian citizen who vanished on a routine trip to the DPRK in 2015, spent more than two-and-a-half years locked up in North Korea, becoming the country’s longest-held western prisoner since the Korean War.
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