HONG KONG: A 75-year-old Australian missionary has been detained in North Korea for allegedly distributing Korean-language Christian pamphlets, his wife said on Wednesday.

Hong Kong-based John Short was taken from his Pyongyang hotel on Monday by North Korea’s public security bureau following an earlier visit from the officers on Sunday night.

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