China’s government is not only cracking down on its own Christian citizens, it is also targeting South Koreans who are in the country and allegedly helped persecuted North Koreans who escaped Kim Jong-un’s oppressive regime.
An International Prayer Day for North Korea was recently held in Westminster in the UK where Christians joined together to pray for those who are suffering persecution under the regime of Kim Jong-un.
Choi Kwanghyuk, a North Korean defector, said despite being offered freedom from the prison camp, he and other believers said they would not deny Christianity.
At an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Monday, US ambassador Nikki Haley told the assembled delegates that North Korean leadership is, “begging for war.”
North Korea issued the statement after the country fired a missile over Japan’s Kokkaido island and into the ocean. Japan, South Korea and the United States all criticized the missile test.
Christians from neighboring South Korea are involved in a special mission to get Scripture into the hands of North Korean Christians, and that mission involves specially-designed balloons.