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Korean-Canadian minister freed from N. Korea: VOA
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Yonhap) -- A Korean-Canadian pastor has been released after being detained for more than two months in North Korea, a U.S. government-funded radio station reported Sunday.
Minister Kim Jae-yeol was released last week from detention in North Korea and is heading for Seoul, the Voice of America (VOA) reported.
Kim, who helped set up clinics in 1997 in the Rajin-Sonbong area in the communist country, was arrested by North Korean authorities last November.
According to the VOA, Kim wrote in a statement during an interrogation that he criticized the North Korean regime and tried to establish a church in the North. To help obtain Kim's release, Canadian Ambassador to Korea Ted Lipman visited Pyongyang last week, the report said.
Although religious groups exist in North Korea, critics say that independent religious activity is prohibited in the reclusive country.
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