North Korean Christians lose access to the Bible with the radio broadcasts

First on the fox: A step aimed at reducing tensions between the south north korea Instead of improvement, a life of 400,000 Christians living in the north. The policy has been criticized as a “catastrophic strategic mistake.”

The new president of South Korea, Lee Jay Meong, ordered 80 % of the radio broadcasting from the south, in the north, to stop sending in May. The President also announced that the amplifiers that were broadcasting the anti -communist propaganda on the border between the two countries should be downloaded.

The Korea Times reported on Tuesday that Mongo told the cabinet in Seoul, “I hope that these mutual measures gradually lead to dialogue and communication” between two Koreas, adding that the South Korean President wants to “turn from the relationship that causes harm to each other to what is useful.”

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In a statement reported by the news site on the news Korea.net on August 5, the South Korean Ministry of Defense added that the new measures were “practical measures to help reduce tensions between the Koreans, within a scope that does not affect the army’s willingness.”

But the closure of radio stations has a significant impact on Christians in North Korea. The Kim Jong Un regime has destroyed it as a crime of Christianity. Even it is found with the Bible can lead to implementation, usually with a bullet, and sometimes it is said that after torture.

There is no general access to the Internet for ordinary citizens. The only practical way that Christians can experience the Bible, education or Christian ideas is to listen secretly to the radio. But now that 38 north at Stimson Center, a leaflet analyzing data on North Korea, says that broadcasting to the country from the south, including broadcasts that were previously supported by the US Agency for Global Information, has been reduced by almost 80 % since May, and that they advise that this level may decrease further in the coming months.

It is also reported that it is difficult to hear the Christian message now. Due to the presence of fewer broadcasting operations that still enter the north, the authorities are said to have achieved greater success in electronic jamming.

A US State Department spokesman expressed his concern and told Fox News, “Under the leadership of President Trump and the Secretary Rubio, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for International Religious Freedom is actively discussing in new ways to push freedom of religion all over the world, including in North Korea, and for a Christian religious society in North Korea.

It is impossible to overcome the importance of this broadcast of Christians in North Korea, Timothy Zhu, who defected from the country when he was 17 years old, for Fox News Digital from London. Zhu is working on the Secretariat of the British government parliamentary group for all parties in North Korea, saying, “We share the Bible with our brothers and sisters on Earth in North Korea. This importance cannot compare any amount of values, because it is hope.

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In North Korea, Chu claimed, The ruling family of Kim It is collected collectively as gods, not just what is called “higher leaders”, but the higher organisms. He explained that this is the reason that Christianity is very afraid of the government. He added, “The most dangerous threat to the North Korean authority is the claim that it is a real deity that is not associated with Kim’s dynasty.”

“Christianity underground is underground space for free exchange of ideas. Christianity is a distinctive feature of the Korean people,” Greg Skratio, President and CEO of the Human Rights Committee in Washington, North Korea, told Fox News Digital. “Kim’s family regime does not want any of this, after he tried hard to transform the true identity of the Korean people.”

“The closure of radio stations that save information to North Korea is a catastrophic strategic mistake. The real change cannot come from the Kim family. It can only come from the North Korean people, especially Christians. The only thing that the outside world can do to help them is empowerment through information.”

North Korea is at the top of the open doors surveillance list for Christian persecution again this year. Open Dors is a global organization that supports and talks about persecuted Christians because of their faith. The report pointed out that “the police and intelligence agents are looking for homes without warning. If they find Christian materials, they are considered a crime against the nation, and all family members, imprisonment or implementation can be punished. Those who use a smartphone or radio unregistered to reach the media is not approved.”

The report continued, “Christians only dare to listen to radio programs at night, hiding under the blankets. Every act of worship, although the self is seen as“ an act of severe stock. ”Citizens are trained to report any person who may be an enemy of the regime, including family members.

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“The national content of the hostile broadcasting of Christians, where Christians are depicted as evil betrayals for the nation, and the activities of missionary are referred to as terrorism,” the open doors indicated.

Thursday , Kim Yu JongThe sister of North Korea’s leader and deputy director of the Ministry of Advertising and Information at the Pyongyang’s Ruling Labor Party, North Korea, will not reduce controls. It issued a statement monitored by a source in Seoul, which was said to “do not care whether South Korea is the disintegration of loudspeakers or stopped broadcasting. We have no intention to improve relations with loyal Lackeys in America.”