North Korea

Who Are the Three Americans That Have Been Released by North Korea?

By Jim
May 10 2018

North Korea’s first private university, PUST was founded and remains operated by actors outside the country, mostly Evangelical Christian organizations. While it is a secular school — North Korea keeps a tight grip on information about religion — the university chiefly employs Christian staff. The school has close historical ties to Yanbian University in Jilin, China, near the border with North Korea.

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First Baptist's Robert Jeffress: ‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un’

By Jim
Aug 09 2017

Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Donald Trump's evangelical advisers who preached the morning of his inauguration, has released a statement saying the president has the moral authority to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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North Korean defector: Despite horrific persecution, Christianity is growing

By Jim
May 15 2017

Despite poor conditions and the threat of imprisonment, the number of Christian believers in North Korea is growing, Kim said, and their faith is strengthened through persecution. “The one thing that the North Korean regime fears the most, and is afraid of, is the spreading of the Gospel,” he said. “Because the Bible and the Gospel speaks the truth.

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The Forgotten American Missionaries of Pyongyang

By Jim
Apr 27 2017

"It may be difficult to imagine from the perspective of the 21st century, but the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang once had at its center a community of Americans—Christian missionaries who lived there from 1895 to 1942. ... The current capital was then the home of the largest Christian community in Korea and the center of the Presbyterian Church in Asia."

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