{"id":5377,"date":"2013-01-29T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2013-09-10T01:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:25:13","slug":"north-korea-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/north-korea-update\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea still persecuting Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

As North Korea has recently been in the headlines because of their brazen and shameless threats to the United States<\/strong><\/a>, we want to remind our readers of the resources we made available last year, including resources focusing on the persecution of Christians in this dark and evil nation. To download our collection of resources, click on the following link:<\/p>\n

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North Korea Resources<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

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Kim Jong-un, the current leader of North Korea, comes from a family of brutal rulers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I assembled these resources after speaking first-hand with those who had been involved helping North Koreans to escape.<\/p>\n

Also, see the news story published yesterday<\/strong><\/a> about photographs of North Korea’s concentration camps that were generated using Google Earth. The report tells how “As many as 250,000 political prisoners and their families toil on starvation rations in the mostly remote mountain camps”, but what it does not mention is that many of these families are Christians who have been taken to these starvation camps as a punishment for believing in Jesus.<\/p>\n

To get an idea of what goes on in these camps, read my book review of Kang Chol-Hwan\u2019s chilling expos\u00e9 of the system<\/strong><\/a> after his own imprisonment of ten years. The treatments that Christians and other political prisoners are subjected to at these camps include such things as:<\/p>\n