Durihana

Since the 1950s North Korea has been a prison to its own people, with Christians suffering the worst. When a person is discovered to be a Christian, they and three generations of their family are sent to labor camps to be worked or tortured to death. The North Korean government does this to purge bad blood from their country. In other places in the... world people die for becoming a Christian; in North Korea, people die simply because someone else in their family became a Christian- whether they know it or not. With the average North Korean evangelist having an average life span of 90 days, the cost of discipleship is high in North Korea. The atrocities that take place in North Korea are worse and have lasted far longer than the Nazi Concentration camps, and the Soviet Gulags under Stalin. For many years, North Korea has received more food aid than any other country in the world, yet literal millions of its people have starved to death. The leadership of the country hoards the food and gives it to the country elites and the army. In the midst of mass starvation, the previous leader of North Korea (Kim Jong Il) spent over $1,000,000 a year on cognac (whisky). To put this in perspective, as his people starved, he spent more per year on whisky than most people make on Wall Street. Because of the sever famines that have plagued the country for years, many have tried to escape to seek food. Crossing the southern boarder is impossible as it is the most heavily militarized area in the world. To flee the country, the only exit is crossing the border that is shared with China. To leave North Korea without permission is a capital offense, punishable by death. In the late 1990s South Korean businessman Ki-won Chun was visiting along the Chinese-North Korean border looking for new business opportunities. Little did he know he would be led out of multiple successful business ventures and into full-time ministry rescuing the worlds most forgotten people. While along the China-North Korea border he saw, for the first time in ...Read More