North Korea shows captive Canadian pastor confessing before congregation


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  • Monday, 03 Aug 2015

Hyeon Soo Lim speaks during a news conference at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 30, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea released video footage on Monday of a Canadian pastor confessing before a Pyongyang church congregation that he had committed crimes against the state.

Hyeon Soo Lim, of the 3,000-member Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, travelled to North Korea in January this year on a routine humanitarian visit. He has been detained since February.

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