A South Korean missionary arrested in North Korea in October said Thursday he had sought to establish underground churches while operating under the orders of South Korea’s intelligence agency

A South Korean missionary arrested in North Korea in October said Thursday he had sought to establish underground churches while operating under the orders of South Korea's intelligence agency.
  
At a news conference staged in Pyongyang, Kim Jeong-Wook, wearing a dark suit and in apparent good health, read a statement which detailed a number of anti-government activities. No questions were taken at the event, footage of which was broadcast on South Korean television.
  
"I thought that the (North's) current regime should be brought down and acted ... under directions from the (South's) National Intelligence Service," Kim said. "I met with North Koreans and introduced them to the NIS," he added.
  
When Kim was first arrested, the North simply announced that it had captured a South Korean "spy".

In his statement, which he read, seated alone at a small table, Kim said he had told North Koreans he met that statues to the country's ruling Kim dynasty should be smashed, and churches built in their place. "I also vilified and insulted the North's leadership with extremely colourful language," he said.
  
The news conference came a week after North Korea arrested an Australian missionary, John Short, 75, after he left a Christian pamphlet in a Buddhist temple.

North Korea is also holding US citizen Kenneth Bae, described by a North Korean court as a militant Christian evangelist. Bae was arrested in November 2012 and sentenced to 15 years' hard labour on charges of seeking to topple the government.