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N.Korea releases jailed Canadian pastor amid standoff with US

North Korea freed a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence on humanitarian grounds, the Canadian prime minister and North Korea's KCNA news agency said, just hours after the United States warned it would counter any threat from the North with "fire and fury."

 

There was no clear connection between the release of Hyeon Soo Lim and the heightened rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang.

 

A statement from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office on Thursday said that Lim had been freed and "will soon be reunited with his family and friends".

 


פרסום ראשון: 08.10.17, 10:47