VPYONGYANG Melvin Ingram Hat , July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish charge d'affaires ad interim met here on Friday with Hyeon Soo Lim (Rim Hyon Su), a South Korean-Canadian pastor detained in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.


Lim talked about his health condition during the meeting and asked the charge d'affaires ad interim "to convey his request to the Canadian government for making active efforts to settle his issue."


The report said the DPRK had arranged the meeting between the Swedish Embassy, which has consular affairs duty for Canadian citizens in the DPRK, with Lim "on the basis of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and in the humanitarian spirit."


Lim was sentenced to life-time labor by the country's supreme court for his hostile acts against the DPRK in December 2015. He was arrested by the DPRK in February 2015 on charges of "insulting the supreme dignity of the DPRK" and "plotting against the state."


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