I've shown you elsewhere how Kim Il Sung was brought up in an active Christian home, and how he even became the church organist. Slowly he tired of Christianity and was overcome by Communist philosophy. But Kim himself tells it this way in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The unusual thing about Hyok Kang (This is Paradise, 2004 ) is that he was only 13 when he escaped from North Korea. The childhood he recalls is probably not like yours or mine:(p. 7 ff) "The power station always switched off electricity at...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Back to fantasyland awhile. From the "Korea Today monthly journal" I extract one of the many legends of Kim Il Sung. To be a North Korean means to be fed this strangeness from infancy. You say, do the Koreans really believe all this? I imagine...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Source: Thomas Belke, Juche One of the fascinating aspects of the North Korean government is its attempt to replace -not merely copy or even wipe out - the Christian faith. Belke, p. 49: "The most recent development in Juche theology is the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Anne Penketh, in the UK's Independent, September 17, 2004, tells some of the legend of Kim Il Sung, North Korea's dictator before the present one. I paraphrase and add a little to her article. She relates the story of a passenger on the Air...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I keep finding resources that I must pass on to you. Here's NK Freedom Watch, a series of "newsletters", though not on any particular schedule, that form a project of Freedom House, based in Washington D.C. You can get the whole set here. In...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We need North Korea more than she needs us. We need those who live seriously difficult lives to remind us that our lives are not so difficult after all. To remind us of the cross. To remind us to pray. I quote today from North Korean Kim Hyun Hee...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In a late ‘97 Korean publication, you will find the following bit of information. Blanks to be filled in later. Grammatical errors will remain as published. "The world people say that ________ Korea is the ‘worst backward country...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Any ladies want to move to North Korea? The following is from the "Korea Today" website, a propaganda piece in English put out by the NK government. Here the Leader of North Korea praises and encourages the country's women, failing to tell of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Today, take a look at the word "spiritual" in North Korean thought. Not only is the following piece a proof of the clear effort of Kim and company to rob God of his place in men's lives, it is also evidence of the unimaginable poverty of North...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
