May-June 2009 North Korea newsletter
The DPRK and Its Attitude Toward the Church
For three decades, North Korea and Albania were two countries that had no organized religion of any kind inside their borders, but that has changed. The changes first started showing up in 1974, when the Korean Christian Association was brought back. It had originally been established in 1946, but was disbanded in 1960. It could have been brought back to show the world that the DPRK has religious freedom.
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Volunteers and the "Well Talk"
Learn a little bit more about how students live in the DPRK and about the “worldview” of a typical citizen in the North. Please read these brief articles and think how you could pray for students like this and people with this kind of worldview.
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Centre of Hope
Ever since the end of the Korean War, the DPRK has been known as a closed country. Many do not know and understand the intrinsic values and principles of the DPRK’s unique culture and ideology.
Even so, various NGO’s did and still do try to assist the DPRK. At one point, at the peak of the country’s food crisis, there were up to 130 international agencies contributing to humanitarian needs within the country (1).
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Does Worship Exist in North Korea?
Indeed it does. In fact North Koreans are masters at worshipping and their lives of worship will rebuke anyone that tries to compare. I only visited the country once but this was the lasting impression I got from my trip. Each morning I found the exit door to my hotel building to be an entranceway to a draped city of slogans and praises to the great North Korean leaders.
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