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HAN KIM v. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

No. 13-7147.

774 F.3d 1044 (2014)

HAN KIM and Yong Seok Kim, Appellants v. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, also known as North Korea and John Does 1-10, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Asher Perlin argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief was Robert J. Tolchin.   Meir Katz entered an appearance.

Robert P. LoBue argued the cause for amicus curiae Human Rights First. With him on the brief was Gabor Rona.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.

Relying on the "terrorism exception" to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the family of Reverend Dong Shik Kim sued the North Korean government alleging that it abducted him, confined him to a kwan-li-so — a political penal-labor colony — tortured him, and, ultimately, killed him. When North Korea failed...

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