In an article posted by the AFP titled China slammed over "grave" crisis facing NKorean refugees  that is really a very sad look at is what is happening to those inside of North Korea and those who fled from North Korea and had the opportunity to take refuge in China.

According to a 48 page report called "Prison Without Bars" by the independent US Commission on International Religious Freedom, those in North Korea who confessed religious belief faced very harsh penalties inside the communist regime.

Some of the refugees interviewed said that if they were sent back into North Korea from China and they were a person who had religious beliefs that they were treated "just like animals" and also even if they had a bible they could be arrested.  Others could disappear as well as be murdered.

The article goes on to say,

The commission, which acts as the religious freedom watchdog, lamented "the grave situation" facing the repatriated North Koreans and called for global action to contain the crisis.

It said there was sufficient evidence to make a case that North Koreans in China should qualify as refugees under the relevant international standards.

Senator Sam Brownback when speaking on this subject said "China's role as the great enabler of human rights abuses," and that

"There is a dismal record of China in Tibet, there is a dismal record of China in Darfur, there is a dismal record of China in the treatment of North Korean refugees," he said, calling on Beijing to stop the "abuses."

Another tragedy reported is that some North Korean women are sold into slavery in China.

The bottom line is that we all need pray for our brothers and sisters who are in China and North Korea, that someday they will be set free from the religious persecution they are under and that the leadership in China would stop allowing abuse under their leadership.