North Korea (MNN) - We've heard the stories. Thousands of North Korean Christians have been killed for their faith. Many more are in work camps. Today another chilling story [A prominent Christian worker] says North Korean Christians are becoming increasingly uneasy about possessing a Bible. He brings sobering news from their worker there.

"A man that's known to be an "evangelist." He's probably not an evangelist to anyone other than his family members, but he was caught with two of our Korean New Testaments in his possession and he was executed for that."

This is just one of many stories coming out of North Korea.

"A North Korean Army General who became a believer and was trying to evangelize some of the people in his unit, was executed by a fellow officer." Another story included a woman who was washing clothes, "She bent over to rinse her clothes. A New Testament fell out. Somebody reported it and both she and her grandmother were quickly executed."

There seems to be no sign of the persecution easing any. "What you have is a leader who is proclaiming himself to be god. It's prescribed that they daily worship him. And, refusal to do that and being caught worshiping God just brings that kind of governmental response. And, as best we can tell the tempo of that is not lessening."