SEOUL, South Korea – Let us be in prayer: North Korea says it has sentenced a South Korean Baptist missionary to hard labor for life for allegedly spying and trying to set up underground churches, the latest in a string of missionaries to run into trouble in the rigidly controlled North.
North Korean state media said the missionary was tried Friday and admitted to anti-North Korean religious acts and “malignantly hurting the dignity” of the country’s supreme leadership, a reference to the ruling Kim family.
Christian missionaries have been drawn over the years to totalitarian North Korea, which tolerates only strictly controlled religious services.
North Korean defectors have said that the distribution of Bibles and secret prayer services can mean banishment to a labor camp or execution.
Pictured is the nut case leader of North Korea: Kim
