North Korea frees Australian Christian missionary

[hrmjustin]

Source: Reuters

By Choonsik Yoo

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea freed a Australian missionary who had been jailed for promoting Christianity on Monday, releasing a picture of a handwritten confession by the elderly man who was arrested last month.

John Short was picked up at Beijing airport by an Australian embassy vehicle and did not speak, according to Reuters Television journalists at the airport.

He was accused by Pyongyang of committing a crime by distributing tracts from the bible at a Buddhist temple in Pyongyang on Kim Jong Il's birthday, a national holiday in North Korea to mark the ruling dynasty's second leader.

"I deeply apologize for what I have done by spreading my Bible tracts

Read more: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA2200M20140303?irpc=932

[Renew Deal]

1. North Koreas press release is ridiculous

"The relevant organ decided to expel him from the territory of the DPRK"

Maybe I'm reading that wrong, but it sounds like they are saying they "dumped" him.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/02/world/asia/north-korea-australian-missionary/index.html

[hrmjustin]

2. They got whatever mileage they could I guess. Shameful the way they treated him and their

people.