Source: Joel News International #895, March 11, 2014
The Dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, decreed that 33 Christians who had planned to establish 500 underground churches under the leadership of South Korean missionary Kim Jung-wook were to be executed. The missionary has been held since October of 2013 in a North Korean prison camp. Now 33 of his friends and followers from the North are due to die in their cells at the State Security Department.
Kim Jung-wook has been held in North Korea since October of 2013. He was forced to “confess” that he worked for the intelligence services and had intentions to overturn the North Korean government. The South Korean Intelligence Service denied this and stated that Kim Jung-wook was kidnapped in China and taken to Pyongyang by North Korean forces.
In his previous purge of 80 persons, witnesses stated that dictator Kim Jong-un had them all machine gunned in front of family members as they watched in horror. Over the last year and three months, the dictator has also purged members of his own family in a brutal way.
Open Doors calls Christians globally to cover the country of North Korea in prayer. North Korea has been the No. 1 persecutor of Christians on the Open Doors World Watch List for 12 years in a row. Engaging in secret religious activities is a crime punishable by arrest and even public execution in this nation. North Korea’s government also regularly detains foreign missionaries.
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