North Korea: Christianity is deemed a ‘serious threat’ By Jim Jun 12 2018 Atrocities Under Kim Jong-un: Indoctrination, Prison Gulags, Executions Tags: North KoreaPersecution 1089 reads
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.Tags: North Korea 388 reads
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.Tags: Kim Jong UnRobert JeffressDonald TrumpNorth Korea 2766 reads
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.Tags: North Korea 584 reads
North Korean university draws U.S. evangelicals despite risks By Jim May 11 2017 The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) says its sole mission is to help North Korea's future elite learn the skills to modernize the isolated country and engage with the outside world. Tags: North Korea 1230 reads
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." Tags: PyongyangNorth Korea 971 reads
Remembering North Korea's Christian martyrs By Jim Dec 26 2016 Christian Solidarity Worldwide report: "Among other basic human rights denied to the people of North Korea, freedom of religion or belief is largely non-existent. Denial of this right has occurred since the 1950s, and the current leader, Kim Jong-un, continues to violate citizens' religious freedom." Tags: North Korea 903 reads
The Pentagon’s Unholy Alliance with Missionaries By Aaron Blumer Nov 04 2015 The reckless use of a charity to sneak spy equipment into North Korea will endanger Christians across the world Tags: GovernmentNorth Korea 956 reads
