North Korea: "No Room for Fear"

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 9 December 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In one of the most-listened-to episodes of VOM Radio in 2016, Australian John Short shares the story of his detention in North Korea. He was repeatedly interrogated. He was forced to write a "confession" of his "crimes," including the offense of wanting more North Koreans to follow Jesus. But if God called him today, Short would happily go back. Mr. Short shares this week on VOM Radio how God strengthened him during his captivity, the Scriptures and earthly examples that most encouraged him, and how he managed to take a measure of control back from his captors — and even make them nervous. Mr. Short agreed to only two media interviews after his release; one of them was with The Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. You can hear the second half of our conversation with Mr. Short in the episode "North Korea: Faith or Fear?"; also hear his wife, Karen, share about her experiences while he was detained in the episode "North Korea: 'I Simply Trusted the Lord.'" North Korea: Faith or Fear?: https://soundcloud.com/the-voice-of-the-martyrs/north-korea-faith-or-fear North Korea: "I Simply Trusted the Lord": https://soundcloud.com/the-voice-of-the-martyrs/north-korea-i-simply-trusted-the-lord

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0:00.0	If it was a crime to tell other people about Jesus, would you be guilty?
0:06.5	Would there be enough evidence to convict you?
0:10.3	That theoretical question has been asked many times in the Western Church.
0:14.7	It's even been the subject of popular songs. But when John Short found himself detained
0:20.7	by officials in North Korea, the question was very real.
0:26.0	He looks back and remembers what his interrogators said.
0:30.0	You committed the crime of carrying Bible literature into China.
0:36.0	And I said, yes, I admit this is a crime against their law.
0:41.0	Your second crime is that you want more and more North Koreans
0:46.6	to believe in Jesus. I said yes and guilty.
0:51.6	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world
0:57.9	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and
1:04.7	they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:08.8	Join host Todd Nettleton's we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
1:14.0	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network.
1:17.0	You know, the holidays can get stressful and if you're like me, we get busy and sometimes we're
1:22.4	put into contact with what you might call difficult
1:25.4	people. Today we're going to hear a story that will put those trials into
1:29.8	perspective. Our guest this week is John Short who knows what it's like to be
1:34.4	detained in North Korea. Now most of the North Koreans who go into the prison
1:39.9	system don't come out, but John Short did and he's going to share that story with us.
1:46.5	We shared John's story earlier this year but I know we've added many radio stations since then
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