All posts tagged "pardon diplomacy"

  • Hyeon Soo Lim, center, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, is escorted to his sentencing in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state.
    N. Korea likely to seek ‘pardon diplomacy,’ expert says

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea is expected to push for “pardon diplomacy” using a Korean-Canadian pastor sentenced to a life of hard labor, an expert here said Friday. Cheong Seong-chang, a senior analyst at the Sejong Institute,...

    • Posted December 18, 2015
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