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Former prisoner motivated by N. Korea’s religious persecution

Fowle, imprisoned for six months, does not recommend smuggling Bibles into the North

Recently released American Jeffrey Fowle was motivated to leave a Bible in the North Korean nightclub by stories of North Korean persecution of Christian, he told ABC News.

Still, having been released nearly two weeks ago after more than six months of imprisonment, Fowle said that he did recommend a similar course of actions to anyone else.

“I don’t recommend anybody sneaking across the border with a sack full of Bibles or tracts,” he told the network. “They’re serious about their anti-religion in the DPRK.”

With Fowle’s release, two more Americans, Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae, remain imprisoned. The