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hrmjustin

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 01:37 AM Mar 2014

North Korea frees Australian Christian missionary

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 on February 16th the birthday of his Excellency Kim Jong Il," Short said in the confession released by KCNA and dated March 1.

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

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North Korea frees Australian Christian missionary (Original Post) hrmjustin Mar 2014 OP
Well, that's good news. I hope others will take heed and stay away from there. cbayer Mar 2014 #1
Well they do it at risk and my view would be to stay away, but NK is a disgrace. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #2
I agree that NK is a disgrace and should be more aggressively dealt with, but cbayer Mar 2014 #3
I agree it won't either. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #4

cbayer

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3. I agree that NK is a disgrace and should be more aggressively dealt with, but
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 11:25 AM
Mar 2014

imho, proselytizing is not going to in any way adequately address the issues there.

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