North Korea Gives Christian Pastor Life in Prison

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SEOUL—North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced Korean-Canadian pastor Lim Hyeon-soo, who had been in detention since February, to life in prison with hard labor.
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Mr. Lim, the pastor of Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Mississauga, Ontario, is the latest in a string of Christian missionaries who have been detained and sentenced to hard labor in North Korea, which worships its founder, Kim Il Sung, as a deity and views the spread of organized religion as a threat to the ruling family’s grip on power.
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wsj.com/articles/north-korea-gives-christian-pastor-life-in-prison-1450257181
 
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