FILE - Kim Jung Wook, a South Korean Baptist missionary, gestures as he speaks during a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
FILE - Kim Jung Wook, a South Korean Baptist missionary, speaks under portraits of late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il during a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
FILE - Choe Chun Gil, one of two South Korean men detained in North Korea on charges of spying, speaks during a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)
FILE - Kim Tong Chol, a U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)
Kim Jeong-sam, brother of missionary Kim Jung Wook, shows his brother Kim Jung Wook's photo, bottom right, at his office in Incheon, South Korea, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
FILE - Kim Tong Chol, a U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, speaks as he is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)
FILE - Kenneth Bae, right, who had been held in North Korea since 2012, is hugged following his arrival at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Nov. 8, 2014, after he and fellow American Matthew Miller were freed during a top-secret mission. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - A South Korean man watches a TV screen reporting about South Korean Kim Kuk Gi, left, and Choe Chun Gil, detained in North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, March 27, 2015. The letters read, "Detained Kim Kuk Gi, Choe Chun Gil." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
Choi Jin-young, a son of Choi Chun-kil, 65, who is one of at least six South Koreans who have all but disappeared since being arrested in North Korea in the past decade or so, speaks outside of the North Korean embassy in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 31, 2024. (Kim Kae-yeon/Yonhap via AP)
Kim Jeong-sam speaks during an interview next to his brother Kim Jung Wook's photo at his office in Incheon, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
FILE - Hyeon Soo Lim, center, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, is escorted to his sentencing in Pyongyang, North Korea, Dec. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)
FILE - Elizabeth Salmon, U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea's human rights, speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
FILE - American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)
Kim Jeong-sam holds a photo of his brother of missionary Kim Jung Wook for a photo at his office in Incheon, South Korea, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
FILE - American missionary Kenneth Bae, right, leaves after speaking to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang, North Korea, Jan. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)
FILE - In this photo provided by the South Korean President Office, the country's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks at the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 14, 2024. (South Korean Presidential Office via AP, File)
FILE - Kim Jung Wook, a South Korean Baptist missionary, speaks during a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)