SEOUL: North Korea convicted a South Korean man of espionage and sentenced him to hard labour for life, saying he had confessed to attempting to set up an underground church, according to state media Saturday.
Prosecutors had sought a death sentence for the man, identified by the North's official news agency KCNA as Kim Jong Uk, during Friday's trial.
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