Butler v. Democratic People's Republic of Korea

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DANI BUTLER, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 20-cv-02514 (ACR) v. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)—one of a handful of states whose egregious human-rights abuses first prompted the passage of the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA)—kidnapped Reverend Dong Shik Kim (Reverend Kim or the Reverend) from China in 2000. Strong evidence suggests that thereafter, it tortured and eventually killed the Reverend in a…