Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting a 12 percent increase in government jamming of its shortwave radio broadcasts to North Korea over the past eighteen months. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the measurement comes from the organization’s daily self-monitoring and shows that 58 percent of the ministry’s ...
DEACON ZHANG WEN SHI RELEASED FROM NORTH PRISON, RETURNS HOME TO CHINA
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting that Deacon Zhang Wen Shi, also known by his Korean name Jang Moon Seok 장문석, was released from prison in North Korea and returned home to China on November 5. Deacon Zhang, who ministered to North Koreans in Changbai, China alongside martyred Pastor Han Chung-Ryeol, served more than ...
NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR GOES FROM CONCENTRATION CAMP TO BIBLE TRANSLATOR
Few North Koreans have survived concentration camps and escaped to the outside world. But perhaps only one has gone from living in a North Korean concentration camp to being a Bible translator. “Mrs. Su-Yong (name withheld for security reasons) was raised in a concentration camp by her parents,” says Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative ...
VOICE OF THE MARTYRS KOREA TO ADD FIFTH DAILY BROADCAST TO NORTH KOREA
Voice of the Martyrs Korea announced that it is adding a fifth daily 30-minute broadcast to North Korea. That move comes as most government-sponsored broadcasts into the country by the United States and South Korea have been discontinued. Voice of the Martyrs Korea says that the new broadcast will consist of the sermons of early ...
NK WORKERS RETURN FROM CHINA “SICK BUT CARRYING HOPE”
The 208 North Korean female workers in China who died after Corona have all been incinerated and sent back to North Korea, while an additional 10,000 “sick and problematic” North Korean female workers in China have gone back to North Korea during the past few months. That’s according to a letter from a North Korean ...
VOICE OF THE MARTYRS KOREA HOSTS “MINISTRY TRAINING PARTIES” FOR NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS OVER CHINESE NEW YEAR
127 North Korean defectors came to three “ministry training parties” hosted by Voice of the Martyrs Korea in Seoul, Daejeon, and Busan around the Chinese New Year holiday. As Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley explains, the events gave North Korean defectors the opportunity to do ministry rather than to be ...
Why we will continue sending Bibles by balloon into North Korea
Park Sang Hak and I have almost nothing in common. His group, Fighters for a Free North Korea, launches political flyers using low-tech, low-altitude balloons. My group, Voice of the Martyrs Korea, launches Bibles using high-tech, high-altitude balloons. My group launches the same content year after year and spends all our time and money on ...
Why North Korean Orphans Should Not Be In Orphanages
Post by Pastor Tim – When it comes to our North Korea work at VOM Korea, we are very careful about what we openly share. Despite our robust website (vomkorea.com) that contains pictures and information on balloon launches, Underground University, and radio broadcasting, there is still quite a bit that we don’t talk about, let …
If you want to be transformed, share your testimony before you’re transformed (and other lessons I learned from coaching traumatized North Koreans)
A Guest Post from Dr. Hyun Sook Foley Contrary to what you may have been taught or maybe just assumed, you do not have to live a successful life first and then tell your testimony once your life is polished and perfect. You don’t have to suddenly start making great choices and produce astonishing results …
How North Koreans Can Help Us Tell Our Life Stories the Way God Wants Us To
A Guest Post from Dr. Hyun Sook Foley The estimated population of North Korea is nearly twenty-five million people, but North Korea is actually the country of one story: the story of Kim Il Sung. As North Koreans grow up, they have to memorize more than one hundred stories about Kim Il Sung’s life. That …