Welcome to our OMF North Korea blog
These entries are extracts from His Time for North Korea, a 31 Day Prayer Guide . Available online from our bookshop .
North Korea is a country in need. Many people live in poverty and it is difficult to be a Christian. We should pray for the meeting of these physical needs, but also for the North Korean church to grow. Most of North Korea’s 23 million people have not heard the gospel of Christ. Our prayers can help change that. God loves the people of North Korea as much as he loves us. We need to pray for God’s light to shine in that land.
January 2007 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Great Revival of Pyongyang. Sweeping through the whole peninsula, it purified the church and many came to faith. We must pray that God will do it again; that he will work in a mighty way throughout the whole Korean peninsula.
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7. Communism in North Korea
All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Acts 2:44-45
Today North Korea is a communist state. Communism started with Marx and Engels in Germany when they wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Marx believed that all history is an economic struggle between the haves and the have-no...
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8. The Economy
Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.” Proverbs 30:8-9
The economy in North Korea was originally related to its communist and socialist values. Since the state is all-power...
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10. Atheism in North Korea
... What may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. Romans 1:19-20
Marx saw religion as a symptom that resulted from the class struggles in so...
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11. Kim Il-Sung-ism
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5
The minds of North Koreans are shaped by “Juche” (pronounced ‘joo-chay’) — an ideology that Kim Il-Sung believed and taught. Juche officially replaced Marxism as North Korea’s national philosophy in the 1...
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12. Factories Helped By Outsiders
In your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. 1 Peter 3:15-16
North Korea welcomes many businesses tha...
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13. Chairman Kim Jong-Il
Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Psalm 2:10-11
The most powerful man in North Korea is Kim Jong-Il, its ruler. Born in 1942, while Korea was still a colony of Japan, Kim Jong-Il inherited the leadership of the North from his father Kim Il-Sung, who died in 1994. Kim’s mother died when he was s...
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14. Kim Jong-Il’s Possible Successor
If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will always be secure. Proverbs 29:14
The present leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, was selected and trained by his father, Kim Il-Sung, to be his successor. It appears that Kim Jong-Il is doing the same. A magazine connected with a Japanese newspaper announced in September 2005 that it appears the successor will be one of his...
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15. Children: The Future of Juche?
But Jesus called the children to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” Luke 18:16
“Training young people to be ideologically and morally sound is the greatest proof of love for them.” Kim Il-Sung
The North Korean government believes that children are the future of the revolution and...
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16. Pro-NK Koreans in Japan
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. Psalm 137:1
Korea’s proximity to Japan has resulted in an unavoidable and turbulent relationship. By the end of World War II there were over 2 million Koreans living in Japan, many of whom were forced to go there when Japan ruled Korea as a colony. Although most returned home immediately after the war, many chose t...
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17. The Chongryun Organization
“How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?”
Psalm 137:4
At the center of North Korean society in Japan stands a powerful organization known as Chongryun — the “Korean General Residents Association of Japan.” Chongryun exists to promote the policies of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea). It encourages loyalty to Kim Jong-I...