Australian missionary John Short was shown on North Korean tv on Monday apparently confessing to the crime for which he was jailed in Pyongyang.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHN SHORT, AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY, SAYING:<br /> <br />"I deeply apologise for what I have done, spreading my Bible tracts on February the 16th, the birthday of his Excellency Kim Jong-il."<br /> <br />Hours later the 75-year-old was stepping off a plane in Beijing a free man after North Korea said it was deporting him because of his age.<br /> <br />Short, jailed by North Korea in February, left Beijing airport without speaking to reporters.<br /> <br />His wife Karen said she was delighted he was free.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) KAREN SHORT, WIFE OF MISSIONARY JOHN SHORT, RESPONDING TO QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER SHE'S SURPRISED BY HIS RELEASE:<br /> <br />"Ah, no. Thankful. Really thankful. I don't know how you can make thankful more thankful. Ten thousand times thankful is how I feel. And I don't think words can fit big enough. But that's what
