Kenneth Bae, an American-Korean missionary serving 15 years’ hard labour in North Korea, was discharged from hospital on July 30 and immediately sent back to a labour camp.
The missionary had been transferred to the Pyongyang Friendship Hospital for foreigners after he developed health problems.
Kenneth, whose family emigrated from South Korea to the USA in 1985, was arrested in November 2012, accused by the government of committing ‘hostile acts’ including ‘planning to overthrow the North Korean Government’, and sentenced the following April. The US State Department has requested Kenneth’s release on humanitarian grounds.
