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Rome (AsiaNews) 28 February, 2004 - During the Beijing summit meetings regarding the North Korean nuclear program requests from many exiled North Koreans were ignored. They had asked to discuss the serious violations human rights and religious freedom occurring in their homeland.
The situation experienced by Christians in North Korea is emblematic of the brutal human rights conditions found in the country. News that manages to leak out of the country speaks of violent persecutions and tight government control of religious freedom and worship.
Such news comes form Christians and political dissidents who have managed to escape abroad, as well as from tourists, government employees, foreign journalists and Christian delegations, whose mobility is limited and mostly restricted to the capital of Pyongyang and immediate surrounding areas.
According to the testimony of a North Korean refugee reported by Forum 18 News Service, some elderly Christians were killed in a small town on the Chinese border. The motive for their killings, which occurred in the year 2000, was because they had refused to renounce their faith. Former North Korean citizens and prisoners, like Soon-Ok Lee, have said that Christians in reeducation camps and jails are treated worse than other prisoners.
Due to the reign of terror which has existed in North Korean, persons living in nearby regions have only discovered after ten years that they shared the same faith. Human Rights Without Frontiers says that in order to escape from police repression Christians meet secretly in groups of ten, often with members of the same family.
In recent years Pyongyang has grown worried about "spiritual pollution" of North Koreans and has attempted to persecute such "corrupt" citizens living abroad. In China, for example, where there are 100,000-300,000 North Korean refugees, Pyongyang has obtained support from Beijing to hunt the "fugitives" down.
A Japanese human rights activist has revealed that During long interrogations, North Korean government authorities ask the repatriated refugees what kind of contact they've had with South Korean missionaries working in China, if they read the Bible or attend church services. Those they who admit to contact with missionaries or any other religious affiliations and activities are imprisoned and condemned to death. The church's Protestant pastor, as some reports indicate, is being blackmailed by Pyongyang which holds his family hostage.
In July 2002, at the request of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the North Korean government released brief and evasive information on the status of Christians living in the country.
Originally posted by poedxsoldiervet
reply to post by cautiouslypessimistic
You know, I think the titled should be re word, but its kind of like TV you know if you dont like the show change the channel.
Originally posted by poedxsoldiervet
reply to post by heliosprime
You forget its no okay to be a christian anymore in the US. You have to be tolerant of other relgions and peoples belifs, lifestlye choices, gender identity, and any other PC garbage I have left out.
Face it the Mullahs won "Allah Akabar"
[edit on 7-5-2009 by poedxsoldiervet]
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
I agree with you-however, this entire thread is a flat out lie. That should not be tolerated.
Originally posted by heliosprime
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
I agree with you-however, this entire thread is a flat out lie. That should not be tolerated.
Every "minor" incident Israel does is strongly condemed by the UN. Please show me anywhere when the UN condemed the murder of Christians....."anyone...anyone".....
The title makes the point...that which is not condemed is condoned...for those who went to publi school that means "approved"....
Originally posted by tamusan
Israel owes it's current existence to the U.N. They should jump when the U.N. says to. Maybe it is time to let the U.N. decide that setting Israel up was a bad idea in the first place.
4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Originally posted by heliosprime
Perhaps they should also undue that too.............Israel was created by the UN as a place to "dump" jews after WWII........more likely in an effort to wipe them out..............but in reality it was devine prophesy come true.....