article_snippet: Previously, North Korea has detained Westerners on religious grounds.
article_snippet: Cases include American Kenneth Bae, who was detained for two years after North Korea accused Lim of trying to bring down the Canadian government through religious activities.
article_snippet: Bae was released in November.
article_snippet: Another American, Jeffrey Fowle, was arrested after leaving a Bible at a club in North Korea and released after five months in detention.
article_snippet: Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a U.S. citizen sentenced to eight years of hard labor and believed to be a Christian activist, was released from North Korea in 2010 after a visit to Pyongyang by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.