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NORTH KOREA: Christianity Is Existential Threat to Kim Regime

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The Voice of the Martyrs

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4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It is illegal to bring a Bible into North Korea, and illegal to possess one inside the country. But VOM continues to find ways to get God’s Word into the hands of North Koreans. Dr. Eric Foley, CEO of VOM Korea in Seoul, says everything changes every day in North Korea, bringing new challenges and requiring new responses to continue bringing the gospel to desperate people in “the hermit kingdom.”

Listen to hear how persecuted Christians in North Korea practice biblical obedience in spite of a brutal regime that demands utter loyalty. How can Christians follow the first commandment, “You shall have no other gods before me,” while living in a country that deifies members of the Kim family? Dr. Foley shares how, despite the consequences for even the slightest hint of Christian behavior, our brothers and sisters continue to boldly take risks and exercise wisdom to follow Christ inside North Korea.

One way members of the persecuted church in the DPRK are encouraged and discipled is through VOM radio broadcasts sharing passages from the Bible or sermons delivered in the North Korean dialect. With five broadcast times throughout the day, Dr. Foley asks us to pray that the Lord would continue thwarting efforts of the North Korean government to jam these Christian radio broadcasts.

Dr. Foley, author of These Are The Generations (affiliate link), will also share his own story of persecution for spreading the gospel to North Korea. He reminds us that getting God’s Word out, even just one copy, is worth it.

Pray for North Koran Christians to be faithful to Christ as they go about their daily lives in this restricted nation, and for more North Koreans to be able to read and listen to the Bible for themselves.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's it like for a Tuesday afternoon

0:02.2

for an average North Korean Christian?

0:04.1

They're walking home through,

0:05.5

and they're gonna pass by one of 40,000 statues

0:08.8

or monuments to Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il.

0:11.6

And now we've got two murals to Kim Jong Il.

0:14.8

They're going to be in the Wednesday lecture

0:19.5

at their workplace in which they receive

0:22.5

the latest information about Kim Jong Il's wife.

0:25.5

They're gonna have their kids come home from school

0:27.8

and your kids have all of the latest stories

0:30.2

and they're required to memorize

0:31.6

100 stories of the life of Kim Il Sung.

0:34.0

Even up to the PhD level in nuclear science, right?

0:38.4

If you're a North Korean rocket scientist,

0:40.6

one third of your PhD work will be in the ideology

0:44.8

of the Kim family.

0:48.2

Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.

0:51.4

In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.

0:54.9

He sent them out as sheep among wolves.

0:57.8

Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles

1:00.8

and they're still coming true today

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