Hyeun-soo Lim, the Korean Canadian pastor detained in North Korea since February, was today sentenced to life in prison with hard labor by the country's Supreme Court.
Joseph Kim tells the remarkable true story of his experience living in North Korea and his eventual escape in his newly-released book, reviewed by David W. Brown of mentalfloss.com.
A court has ordered North Korea to pay an American missionary’s family $330 million after the missionary was kidnapped by spies and placed in a prison camp, where he later died.
North Korea is seeking to end human rights campaigns in the nation since Shin Dong-hyuk, the famous North Korean prison camp escapee, admitted parts of his story were inaccurate.