Tuesday marked five years since two South Koreans were sentenced to life in North Korea for "espionage," with no updates about their detention or health recently made available by either government.

The cases of Choe Chun-gil and Kim Kuk-gi, who received "a penalty of indefinite compulsory labor" on June 23, 2015, have not been mentioned by North Korean state media since November 2017. An NK News request for comment to a DPRK embassy went unanswered.