Canadian Pastor Sentenced to Life Term in North Korean Prison

A pastor from Canada may be spending the rest of his life doing hard labor in a North Korean prison.60-Year-old Hyeon Soo Lim, a naturalized Canadian citizen born in South Korea, was convicted yesterday of subversion while in North Korea.

He heads the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, one of the biggest Korean churches in Canada.

MetroSource quotes a source at the church as saying that Lim has visited North Korea, where he helped to establish a nursing home and orphanage, more than one hundred times over the past 18 years.