A U.S. court issued a summons in January for North Korean Foreign Minister Park Ui-chun over allegations that the North was involved in the abduction of South Korean pastor Kim Dong-shik and Hezbollah attacks against Israel, according to Voice of America.

VOA's report was based on a Certificate of Mailing obtained from a federal district court in Washington D.C. Kim's family filed a compensation suit against North Korea in April last year after the pastor, a U.S. resident, died following his kidnapping by North Korean agents in China in 2000 while helping defectors there.

Also, 30 Americans filed a lawsuit against North Korea in April last year claiming that North Korea supplied weapons to Hezbollah, which used them to attack Israel in 2006.