A Canadian pastor serving a prison sentence with hard labour in North Korea was released Wednesday on medical parole as a humanitarian gesture, the official KCNA news agency said.
Hyeon Soo Lim, 61, was freed on "sick bail", the agency announced after a Canadian government delegation arrived in Pyongyang to discuss the case.
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