Tag: Kim Jong-Un

Otto Warmbier’s father joins Pence at Olympics to highlight North Korean abuses

February 9, 2018 Kim Jong-Un, Mike Pence, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, South Korea

As the Winter Olympics kick off in Pyeongchang, US Vice-President Mike Pence has arrived in South Korea with a guest – the father of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died shortly after being sent home from a North Korea prison in June last year. But, as the BBC reports, Mr. . . . Read More

Christmas in North Korea: an inner celebration

December 26, 2017 North Korea Christmas, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, South Korea

How will Christians under pressure for their faith celebrate Christmas? The third instalment in our series focuses on North Korea. North Korea is the most difficult country in which to live as a Christian, according to the advocacy charity Open Doors, which has ranked it no. 1 in its World . . . Read More

‘Crimes against humanity’ in North Korea’s prison camps

December 15, 2017 North Korea China, Human rights, International Criminal Court, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, UN

An icy Tumen river forms the border between China and North Korea, 2009. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

North Korea’s president, Kim Jong-un, and top officials should be held accountable for committing “crimes against humanity” in prison camps in the country, three international jurists said earlier this week. They called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to establish a special tribunal to prosecute the country’s leaders. The jurists’ . . . Read More

Family imprisoned, tortured for fleeing North Korea – and for their Christian faith

August 30, 2017 North Korea China, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, South Korea

As North Korea’s missile testing focuses the world’s attention on Kim Jong-un’s regime, one woman’s story shows how harshly families are treated when they refuse to follow his authoritarian rules. Hannah Cho* was born just before the Korean War broke out in 1950. She remembered the air-raid sirens and holding . . . Read More

North Korea: freed pastor Hyeon Soo Lim welcomed home with ‘joyful crying’

August 16, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea

Hyeon Soo Lim addressing his congregation at the on

The large congregation of Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Canada was ecstatic on Sunday (13 August) in welcoming home their Senior Pastor, Hyeon Soo Lim, held for more than two years of a life sentence in a North Korean labour camp. The church was also crowded with media personnel . . . Read More

North Korean accused of ‘spying’ after visiting Christian relatives in China

June 9, 2017 North Korea China, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong-Un, Kim Seung-mo, Pyongyang, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

A North Korean man has been arrested on “spying” charges after meeting with Christian relatives in China, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.Kim Seung-mo, 61, was arrested on 3 June after visiting family in China’s Jilin province, which runs along the North Korean border. “After he came back from China, he . . . Read More

North Korea’s ‘Christian university’ in balancing act with regime

May 30, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong-Un, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Tony Kim

At a time when North Korea is flexing its military muscles and clamping down on anything that could threaten the rule of leader Kim Jong-un – including religion – the only private university in the country is run by evangelical Christians, explains the New York Times. Pyongyang University of Science and Technology . . . Read More

US Christian arrested for ‘hostile acts’ against North Korea

May 8, 2017 North Korea Donald Trump, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, Kim Jong Wook, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, Tony Kim

A fourth US citizen has been detained in North Korea, as he prepared to leave the country after working for several weeks at the Pyongyang University for Science and Technology, which trains the children of North Korea’s elite and which numbers Christians on its staff. The North Korean state-run news agency KCNA said . . . Read More

China expels South Korean missionaries

February 14, 2017 South Korea China, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, South Korea, USA

Thirty-two South Korean missionaries were expelled from China’s border region with North Korea last month, reports The Guardian. The 32 were based in China’s north-eastern Yanji region and many of them had worked there for more than a decade, South Korean media have reported. South Korea’s foreign ministry says it has . . . Read More

‘Like a jail without bars’: what it’s like working in China with women refugees from North Korea

January 19, 2017 China, Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Refugees, Women

Hwa-Young* works in China with women who fled North Korea or were abducted by people traffickers and taken across the border. Many of the women are tempted to leave behind a miserable life when they are told there are jobs waiting for them in China. But often they are sold . . . Read More

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