Al Jazeera. A Canadian pastor being held in North Korea has admitted to planning "subversive plots" against the communist nation during a public interrogation, Pyongyang's official news agency reported. Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, of the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, was arrested by North Korean authorities in January just after he arrived from China, according to Canadian consular officials. Pyongyang's KCNA news agency said late on Thursday that Lim had admitted to carrying out "subversive plots and activities in a sinister bid to build a religious state in the DPRK," using North Korea's official name.