긴급!!! 북한에 억류되어있는 임현수 목사님의 무사송환을 위해 서명해주세요. **
Get Canadian humanitarian out of North Korean prison!
영어권에게도 나누실수있도록 영어/한글로 합니다.
대상: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) (Secretary-General of the United Nations) Prime Minister of Canada/Premier Ministre du Canada Justin Trudeau Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada Stephane Dion
On December 16, 2015, North Korea sentenced a Canadian pastor on a humanitarian mission to hard labor for life for “crimes against the state.” 지난 수요일, 북한 대법원에서 한국계 캐나다인 임현수 목사님에게 무기징역과 강제 노역을 선고했습니다.
Hyeon Soo Lim, a Korean-Canadian pastor from Toronto in his early sixties, was given the sentence after a swift 90-minute trial. Lim has been in detention for longer than ten months now. 임현수 목사님은 지난 2월부터 10개월간 북한에 구금되어 계십니다. 60대 초반이신 목사님은 건강이 좋지 않으셔서 북한 감옥과 노역 생활을 오래 견디실 수 없습니다.
Rev. Lim traveled to North Korea on January 31, 2015 on a regular humanitarian mission. He’s been supporting a nursing home, a nursery and an orphanage in North Korea – he’s made more than 100 trips to North Korea since 1997, supplying food, textbooks, and agricultural tools to those in need. His trips were not political in nature. 임현수 목사님은 97년도부터 꾸준히 북한과 캐나다를 오고가시며 고아원, 유아원, 양로원등을 지원하시고 북한 주민들에게 식품, 농업 기구, 교과서 등을 전달해오신 인도주의적 활동가이십니다.
He was charged with “crimes” including harming the dignity of the supreme leadership, trying to use religion to destroy the North Korean system, and helping U.S./South Korean authorities abduct North Korean citizens, along with assisting North Korean refugees escape the authoritarian regime. Rev. Lim admitted to these charges, which were most likely forced (other foreigners detained in North Korea and then released have said they were coerced into making similar statements and confessing guilt). 임현수 목사님은 북한 주민들의 탈북을 돕고 종교를 통해 북한 정권을 무너뜨리려했다는 죄목으로 구금되셨습니다. 이에 기자회견을 열어 이러한 내용들을 시인하기도 하셨으나, 북한에 억류되었다가 구출된 다른 이들의 증언을 통하면 이것은 압박과 강요에서 나온 강제시인이라고 볼 수 있습니다.
North Korea has very strict rules against any missionary or religious activities, as they are threatening to the supremacy of totalitarian leadership. Merely leaving a Bible in a public place can lead to arrest and severe punishment. 북한은 공공장소에 성경을 두기만 해도 잡혀가 엄중한 처벌을 받는 곳입니다.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed “tremendous” concern with the sentence and noted that Canadian consular officials have not been allowed access to Lim while he’s been in custody. “We certainly hope to be able to engage with this individual and stand up for his rights,” Trudeau said. Diana Khaddaj, a spokeswoman for Canada’s Global Affairs Department, said Canada is “dismayed at the unduly harsh sentence […] particularly given his age and fragile health.” But the Canadian government needs to express more than mere hope and dismay. Harper’s government neglected Omar Khadr, a Canadian child, in Guantanamo for years. Will Trudeau act differently to another Canadian in unlawful detention in the world’s most atrocious regime? 임현수 목사님을 구하기 위해서는 캐나다 정부와 유엔의 노력이 꼭 필요합니다. 캐나다의 새로운 총리인 저스틴 트루도 총리와 외교부 장관 스테판 디옹, 반기문 유엔 사무총장님 등 세 분에게 전달될 서명입니다.
Last year, North Korea released Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary who was convicted of anti-state crimes and had been serving a 15-year sentence.He was freed along with another American detainee after a secret mission to the reclusive communist country by James Clapper, the top U.S. intelligence official. 작년에는 미국 정부에서 고위급 인사를 보내어 억류 중에 있던 미국 시민 두명을 구해낸 바 있습니다.
The Canadian government needs to take strong, affirmative action NOW to save Rev. Lim, as America successfully did by sending James Clapper. If there is political will, Rev. Lim can be rescued. Please help us bring him home! 캐나다 정부의 노력만 있다면, 임현수 목사님의 구제는 충분히 가능한 일입니다. 아무도 가려고 하지 않는 곳에 몸소 가 희생과 봉사로 하나님의 사랑을 전한 임현수 목사님이 한시라도 빨리 안전하게 가족의 품으로 돌아오실 수 있도록 도와주세요. 서명을 하신 후에는 이 링크를 주위분들에게 보내주시면 더 많은 분들에게 알리는 데에 큰 도움이 됩니다. 감사합니다!
Justin Trudeau: Get Canadian humanitarian out of North Korean prison! www.change.org
On December 16, 2015, North Korea sentenced a Canadian pastor on a humanitarian mission to hard labor….
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