What South Korean Christians Want for North Korea

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🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Will North Korea’s recent diplomatic efforts be an answer to South Korean Christians’ prayers? Hopefully, says Sang-Bok David Kim, the chancellor of a South Korean evangelical graduate school, Torch Trinity Graduate University. “North Korea has been threatening South Korea two or three times a year. [They say], ‘We want to make Seoul a city of fire.’ They make weapons. They shoot our navy boat down. They shoot cannonballs into South Korean islands,” said Kim. “We are very sorry they have behaved like that.” But this aggressive behavior hasn’t kept South Korean churches from praying for their Northern neighbors. Instead, South Korean Christians pray frequently for “freedom, for evangelism, for the transformation of the North Korean leaders, that God will be merciful to them and to us so our nation will be unified so we can go up there and evangelize in North Korea and plant 15,000 churches,” he said. Kim joined associate digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss his ambitious North Korea church planting plan, how the South Korean church has welcomed refugees from the North, and the surprising way God entered his family’s life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.3	I'm Morgan Lee, Associate Digital Media producer
0:38.7	here at Christianity Today, and I'm here with Mark Galley, our editor-in-chief. Good morning.
0:44.1	Hey, Mark. It is a good morning. We might not get rain today, which would be nice. Our guest is not
0:49.1	in the morning. In fact, our guest is in the evening. Yes, our guest is Songbok David Kim. He's Chancellor of Torch,
0:56.9	Trinity Graduate University in Korea, where he also has served as president in the past. He's also
1:01.8	global ambassador of the Transform World Network, and he's held many academic and pastoral
1:06.4	positions in Korea and the United States. And he's the perfect guest to talk about our topic today. Welcome.
1:12.6	Thank you. Yeah, David, it's great to talk to you, even though we're hours apart from each other.
1:18.5	Right. Now is 10, 10 at night. Yeah, over here. It's 8, 10 in the morning. We're just waking up.
1:26.9	David, have you spent any time in Chicago in this area?
1:31.1	Oh, yeah.
1:33.0	My daughters went to school there, Trinity Evangelical Divinic School, and Wheaton College.
1:40.4	All right.
1:40.8	Well, we're located just a couple minutes away from Wheaton.
1:43.8	Yeah. Very cool. All right. Well, let's get into our discussion today.
1:49.5	So this week, President Trump met with Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
1:54.3	The meeting between the two heads of state was announced earlier this spring before Trump canceled it.
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