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Seoul - A South Korean-Canadian pastor held in North Korea was said to have confessed to "subversive plots" against the regime, a media report said on Friday.
Lim Hyeon Soo, of the Light Korean Presbyterian Church near Toronto, went to North Korea on a humanitarian mission in January, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reported, citing North Korea's KCNA.
"He malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership and social system of the DPRK and resorted to subversive plots and activities in a sinister bid to build a religious state in the DPRK while frequenting it under the guise of 'humanitarian aid' and 'free donation' over the past 18 years," KCNA reported.
North Korea is formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK.
The report also accused Lim of being "a servant of the US imperialists and South Korean puppet group."
The pastor reportedly admitted that he read a "report on what is going on in North Korea before tens of thousands of South Koreans and overseas Koreans at a sermon on Sundays at my church and during preaching tours of more than 20 countries including Canada, the US, South Korea, Japan and Brazil."
"Each time I malignantly slandered the dignity and social system of the DPRK," he was quoted as saying.
