Using James and Marti Hefley’s By Their Blood we now begin a series of articles on the history of the church in Korea. As is true of much of Korean history, the pathway is a bloody one. In 1122 B.C. 5,000 subjects of Chinese rule rebelled...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We continue with our modern history of North Korea, following Bradley Martin. We’ve come to the 70’s. Park Chung Hee of the South and Kim Il Sung decide that a series of meetings might boost their poll numbers. Both are in trouble with...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Continuing our history lessons from North Korea...When the new South Korean administration built an economy based on the successful strategies of Japan, North Korea began to lose the race for supremacy on the peninsula. Japan, modeling its...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Still following Martin's Under the loving care... book, we enter into the years just past the Korean War, when most of us draw a blank trying to recall what happened next. It is time to rebuild. There has been much destruction on both sides of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Americans who know of the Korean war chiefly through the MASH series have been sorely misinformed. Hawkeye and company were programmed to make Americans hate the war and the government that sponsored it. Unfortunate. But unless you are an...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I imagine most of my readers know that the Koreas are living out the world's longest cease-fire. Never have the terms of peace been worked out and settled upon. Some expect the war to continue at any time... In 1949, an energized Kim Il Sung...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We started through the 700-page book of Bradley Martin , Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader some time ago. Time to continue on... How does an evil so great as the NK saga get started? One place to start is the childhood of Kim Il...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
