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Kim Jong-Wook

NORTH KOREA

CHARGED WITH:
conspiracy to subvert the State, anti-State propaganda and agitation. espionage, and illegal border crossing

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In October 2013, Kim Jong-Wook, a Baptist missionary, who ran a shelter in China for North Korean defectors, was arrested by North Korean authorities after he entered North Korea. In February 2014 he was forced to confess his ‘anti-state crimes’ at a press conference.
 
Later in May 2014, he was sentenced to ‘hard labor for life’, on charges of “conspiracy to subvert the State, anti-State propaganda and agitation. espionage, and illegal border crossing”.
 
Write to the North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations on behalf of Kim Jong-Wook, and respectfully ask for his release. Keep your letter brief and limit the request to the following: We request the return of Kim Jong-Wook to South Korea.

Contact Address:

Permanent Representative of North Korea to the United Nations
Ambassador Kim Song
820 Second Avenue, 13th Floor,
New York, NY 10017
 

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