South Korea Calls for Return of Six Citizens Detained in North Korea for Many Years

I forgot these people were still being held in North Korea because it has been so long. It seems unlikely the ROK will be able to get them back considering how much the Kim regime hates Christian missionaries:

This file photo, provided by Yonhap News TV, shows Kim Jung-wook, a South Korean pastor who has been detained in North Korea since 2013. (Yonhap)

The unification ministry on Sunday urged North Korea to immediately send a South Korean pastor and five other nationals back home, condemning their yearslong detention as “illegal and inhumane.” 

The ministry made the appeal in a statement marking 10 years after South Korean pastor Kim Jung-wook was arrested in Pyongyang in 2013 and then sentenced to hard labor for life on charges of spying for South Korea’s spy agency.

In 2014, two other South Korean missionaries, Kim Kuk-gi and Choe Chun-gil, were also detained in the North on charges of committing what the North’s regime called anti-North Korea crimes. Three former North Korean defectors, who had obtained South Korean citizenship, were detained in 2016.

“The government condemns North Korea’s illegal and inhumane measure and strongly calls on North Korea, a signatory to the International Covenants on Human Rights, to immediately send them back to their beloved family members,” Koo Byoung-sam, spokesperson at the ministry, said in the statement.

Yonhap

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