Vision | September 28, 2020 With borders closed and security increased, Covid-19 has made it harder than ever for North Korean refugees – including those fleeing due to religious persecution…
National Interest | James W. Carr, Frederick A. Davie | August 2, 2020 For years, Deacon Jang Moon Seok ministered to North Koreans living in Changbai, China until he was kidnapped by North…
Christian Daily | Lina Kim | July 13,2020 Amid North and South Korea's relationship, South Korea successfully delivered digital bibles into North Korea. Knowing there will be consequences, a South…
Express | Stephen Brown | June 15, 2020 As part of a campaign, which has been going on since 2004, defectors have been dropping leaflets opposing the current regime into…
International Christian Concern | June 8, 2020 North Korea’s de facto leader of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, Kim Yo-Jong, better known as its leader Kim Jong-Un’s younger sister, threatened…
Fox News | Caleb Parke | May 14, 2020 Being a Christian in North Korea means using secretive, spylike tactics to read the Bible, facing threats of the death penalty, and circumventing propaganda with…
International Christian Concern | May 6, 2020 North Korea is arguably the most dangerous nation in the world to practice Christianity. Yet, against all odds, the North Korean Church remains.…
Washington Times | Opinion | Cheryl K. Chumley | Jan. 18, 2020 ANALYSIS/OPINION: Once again, Open Doors, the nonprofit that tracks and reports religious persecution around the world, finds in…
BP News | September 30, 2019 It is widely understood that there is virtually no such thing as religious freedom in North Korea. No less than 75 percent of North…
Persecution.org | Sept. 12, 2019 A video obtained by The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), a Christian NGO that supports persecuted Christians globally, shows how the North Korean government sees…
FoxNews | Caleb Parke | Sept. 5, 2019 A pastor on the China-North Korea border shared his faith with at least 1,000 North Koreans in the Hermit Kingdom before he was assassinated in…
Christian Post | By Samuel Smith | July 24, 2019 North Korean defector Illyong Ju speaks with the press at the U.S. State Department's Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at…
FoxNews | Caleb Parke | Feb. 13, 2019 "Prisoner 42" shares about surviving after being a prisoner in a maximum-security prison in North Korea. (Open Doors USA) North Korea took…
International Christian Concern | November 4, 2018 In North Korea, sexual violence has become so widespread and common that it being accepted by society as an ordinary part of life.…
The Japan Times | Oct. 9, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, a spokesman for South Korea’s presidential Blue House said Tuesday.…
National Religious Broadcasters | 061518 Contrary to media reports that he would not, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that he did indeed raise human rights, and the issue of persecuted…
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea | 061118 By Abraham Cooper and Greg Scarlatoiu* For almost three decades, US administrations have tiptoed around the egregious human rights violations perpetrated…
The Wall Street Journal | 060418 Torture and starvation in political prison camps, public executions and forced abortions persist Early in the reign of North Korea’s current supreme leader, merchant…
EPConnection | 051118 Sen. Thom Tillis, speaking from the Senate floor on May 10: “We’re going to continue to work every day that (Andrew Brunson) is in prison to…
The New York Times | 051018 JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — Three American prisoners freed from North Korea arrived here early Thursday to a personal welcome from President Trump, who…
Stream | Institute for Religion and Democracy | Faith McDonnell | 111617 North Korea poses a serious threat to the United States. So far, it’s mostly rhetoric and not action…