{"id":138779,"date":"2017-12-13T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138779"},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T07:05:13","slug":"north-korea-releases-imprisoned-canadian-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/13\/north-korea-releases-imprisoned-canadian-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea releases imprisoned Canadian pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s central court resolves to free Hyeon Soo Lim more than two years after he was sentenced of life imprisonment. The said pastor was arrested in North Korea for committing a crime of anti-state activities.<\/p>\n<p>The news on the pastor\u2019s release was reported by North\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency without further details but they have described it as a \u201csick bail\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement released on Thursday that he was \u201cpleased and relieved\u201d for Lim\u2019s freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured that the pastor will receive any required medical attention as Lim\u2019s health and well-being remains of utmost importance to the government of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>He also acknowledged Sweden\u2019s aid in the matter but due to \u201coperational security considerations\u201d the Canadian government cannot disclose more information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/ 10 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s central court resolves to free Hyeon Soo Lim more than two years after he was sentenced of life &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}