A few days ago The Christian Post published an article titled Rick Warren's North Korea Visit Triggers Mixed Reactions from Freedom Experts in which The Voice of the Martyr's very own Todd Nettleton was quoted. Here's what Todd said...
“I have mixed feelings about North Korea and about Rick Warren’s agreeing to go there to speak,” wrote Todd Nettleton, director of media development for The Voice of the Martyrs – USA, in an e-mail on Monday. “On the one hand, I’m thrilled to think that the Gospel will be preached to a North Korean audience, even if that audience is carefully controlled and hand-picked by the government. I believe in the life-changing power of the Gospel, and so to have that Good News preached in such a dark land is a wonderful development.
“On the other hand,” he continued, “I know that the casual observer will see this and think there is progress toward religious freedom under the Kim regime, and that is simply not true…. I’m concerned that the publicity surrounding Pastor Warren’s visit will obscure the true situation that my brothers and sisters in North Korea are facing.”
The director for the Christian persecution group pointed out that North Korea is probably the world’s most closed nation and Christians are routinely arrested and killed. “Believing in God is considered to be one of the top three crimes,” he noted.
Great commentary as usual!