114 414 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENT, 3d SERIES imminent apprehension of such a contact, and the other is thereby put in such imminent apprehension. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1604. 36. Assault O620 International Law O440 ‘‘Harmful contact,’’ as an element of assault, for purposes of a claim under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which requires that a theory of liability be found in well-established principles of law, is contact which causes any physical impairment of the condition of another’s body, or physical pain or illness. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1604. See publication Words and Phrases for other judicial constructions and definitions. 37. International Law O446 North Korea was liable to former United States servicemembers and their estates for battery, for purposes of action brought by former servicemembers and estates against North Korea under terrorism exception to Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act arising from kidnapping, imprisonment, and torture of servicemembers by agents of North Korea, where North Korea’s agents repeatedly beat servicemembers, sometimes to the point of unconsciousness, over the course of eleven months, and all servicemembers suffered physical injuries from the acts of battery they were subjected to while in captivity. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1605A(c). 38. Assault O615 International Law O440 Battery, for purposes of a claim under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which requires that a theory of liability be found in well-established principles of law, requires an act intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with another person, or an imminent apprehension of such a contact, and the offensive contact in fact directly or indirectly results. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1604. 39. Assault O620 International Law O440 Bodily contact is offensive, as an element of battery, for purposes of a claim under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which requires that a theory of liability be found in well-established principles of law, if it offends a reasonable sense of personal dignity. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1604. 40. False Imprisonment O5, 6 International Law O446 North Korea was liable to former United States servicemembers and their estates for false imprisonment, for purposes of action brought by former servicemembers and estates against North Korea under terrorism exception to Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act arising from kidnapping, imprisonment, and torture of servicemembers by agents of North Korea, where servicemembers were confined to specific locations from the moment they were kidnapped by North Koreans, servicemembers were aware they were not allowed to leave, and the servicemembers’ captivity only worsened, lasting for eleven months. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1605A(c). 41. False Imprisonment O2 International Law O440 False imprisonment exists, for purposes of a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) claim, which requires that a theory of liability be found in well-established principles of law, when one person acts intending to confine the other within boundaries fixed by the actor, his act directly or indirectly results in such a confinement of the other, and the other is conscious of the confinement or is harmed by it. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1604.