South Korean missionary, identified by the North as Kim Jong Uk, adjusts his glasses during a news conference in Pyongyang in this February 27, 2014 picture provided by Kyodo. REUTERS/Kyodo
SEOUL (Reuters) - The South Korean government urged North Korea on Sunday to release a South Korean missionary, Kim Jong Uk, who was sentenced to life with hard labour by a North Korean court on Friday.
"It is regrettable that North Korea went ahead with perfunctory trial procedures in a unilateral manner and gave our citizen severe punishment. We strongly urge North Korea to release and repatriate our citizen to South Korea as soon as possible," South Korea's Unification Ministry said in a statement.
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