One of the countries that has been on my mind and heart in recent weeks is North Korea, quite possibly the most-closed nation on earth and one of the worst persecutors of Christians.
I read the book Rogue Regime on my last airplane ride, and found it to be a fascinating look inside the "Hermit Kingdom." Then today World Net Daily posted an article on North Korea's military conducting chemical tests on their own citizens...even babies that soldiers have just taken from their mother's arms! This is a government that places less than zero value on the lives of its citizens while the dictator reportedly has 10,000 bottles of wine in his wine cellar and buys millions of dollars worth of Swiss watches every year.
Finally, I discovered a great blog by an American who had the chance to visit North Korea on a brief tourist visit. His insights are at times funny and at times scary as he shares an inside look at the most closed nation on earth. Interestingly, he says that the tourists were absolutely prohibited from talking to or interacting with the general North Korean public; they could talk only to their guides, and they couldn't walk more than 100 yards from the hotel. His pictures are also well worth a visit to the blog.
Pray for North Korea, and for Christ's followers there.
Todd Nettleton is the Director of Media Development at The Voice of the Martyrs--USA.
not only that but they have around a dozen concentration camps where people are systematically killed, one camp is multiple times bigger than the district of columbia. when a citizen goes to one of the camps, 3 generations of his family go along with him. usually the people being tested are within the walls of these concentration camps.
Posted by: dominic | May 31, 2006 at 05:28 AM