N Korea sentences S Korea minister to life of hard work

South Korean teacher, recognized by the North as Kim Jong-uk, alters his glasses throughout a news meeting in Pyongyang on 27 February 2014 

Kim Jong-uk had a barrier attorney present at the trial, the state news organization reports 

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North Korea has sentenced a South Korean teacher to hard work forever, after he was declared guilty spying and setting up an underground church. 

The state news org said the man, named as Kim Jong-uk, had admitted to all his wrongdoings. 

Pyongyang is even now holding an alternate minister, US resident Kenneth Bae, who accepted 15 years hard work in 2013. 

Religious movement is limited in the North, with teachers captured on numerous events previously. 

"Mr Kim attempted to invade into Pyongyang after wrongfully trespassing on the outskirt with the end goal of setting up an underground church and social affair data about the inside undertakings of the DPRK (North Korea) while tricking its tenants into South Korea and spying on the DPRK," the KCNA news organization said. 

The arraignment had purportedly been looking for a capital punishment for the 50-year-old preacher. 

The decision comes three months after Kim read distinctly an open conciliatory sentiment on North Korean TV for his "against state criminal acts". 

He was captured in the wake of intersection into the nation from China last October. 

Not long ago, Australian evangelist John Short was expelled from North Korea in the wake of being kept for professedly conveying religious material. 

Pressures are running high between the Koreas, succeeding a late trade of gunfire between both nations' strengths.