Appearing thinner but in good spirits, Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim arrived by military jet at a U. S. airbase in Japan early today.
Appearing thinner but in good spirits, Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim arrived by military jet at a U. S. airbase in Japan early today.
The pastor, who was released after more than two years in prison in North Korea, is seen in footage broadcast by Japan’s TV Asahi. He’s walking, shaking hands and speaking with members of the delegation who travelled to North Korea to secure his release.
He touched down at the Yokota Airbase in Fussa, Japan, shortly after midnight ET.
One of the officials walking with Lim is Daniel Jean, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security and intelligence adviser who led the delegation to the capital city of Pyongyang to finalize the release.
State-run North Korean media reported Lim, a Presbyterian minister in Mississauga, was freed on « sick bail. »
Lim was arrested in February 2015, when the Conservative government of Stephen Harper was in office, and was sentenced in December of that year to a life of hard labour for allegedly trying to overthrow the regime.
