{"id":52209,"date":"2024-12-17T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/?p=52209"},"modified":"2024-12-13T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T06:29:32","slug":"vomk-report-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/2024\/12\/17\/vomk-report-329\/","title":{"rendered":"NK OFFICIALS ACCIDENTALLY PRESERVE RECORD OF UNDERGROUND CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”52202″ img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”The story of two underground North Korean Christians captured while evangelizing North Korean soldiers was documented in a military training video obtained by Korean broadcaster KBS this month. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the video is one of several North Korean government videos that have emerged over the years which unintentionally preserve the record of underground North Korean Christian activity which would otherwise be lost forever or remain unknown to the world. ” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:1.2em|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Noto%20Sans%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” el_class=”headline”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201c<\/span>North Korean authorities certainly don\u2019t make these training videos for the sake of honoring the memory of underground Christians,\u201d says Voice of the Martyrs Korea. \u201cThe purpose of the videos is to <\/span>discredit practitioners of religion by portraying them <\/span>as subversive agents <\/span>seeking<\/span> to overthrow the state. In this latest video, <\/span>the <\/span>names of the two North Korean Christians are not given in the video and their faces are concealed<\/span>. <\/span>Their mission is described in the most negative way: They confess to having received training in the \u2018den of enemies\u2019 <\/span>in order to<\/span> \u2018<\/span>entice soldiers acting individually to believe in God more than in the leadership<\/span>\u2019.<\/span> But <\/span>by deciphering the story told in the video we learn for the first time about two bold and courageous North Korean evangelists who received Christ in China and returned to evangelize North Korean soldiers instead of escaping to the South\u2014at the cost of their lives.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]According to Representative Foley, the<\/span> North Korean government training videos <\/span>reveal God at work, preserving North Korean Christian history and the stories of North Korean Christian martyrs even through Christianity\u2019s fiercest persecutors\u2014the North Korean government. <\/span>She says that the videos also provide visual proof of at least some of the Christian materials that are circulating inside North Korea.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”52211″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”Capture of underground Christians shown in a North Korean government training video obtained this month by Korean broadcaster KBS. ” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:13px|text_align:center|color:%230a0101|line_height:1.45em”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Representative Foley says that this latest training video obtained by KBS is <\/span>similar to<\/span> one Voice of the Martyrs Korea obtained in 2018. That video documented the story of <\/span>Cha Deok Sun, a previously unknown North Korean Christian martyr whose story is preserved in a North Korean government video used to train state security agents how to <\/span>identify<\/span> and silence proponents of religion inside North Korea.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\u201cThe <\/span>training video for state security agents documented how Missionary Cha <\/span>received Christ in China and returned to North Korea instead of escaping to the South<\/span>\u2014just like the two Christians in the recently obtained KBS video<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]According to Representative Foley, the video <\/span>obtained in 2018 by Voice of the Martyrs Korea <\/span>says that d<\/span>ue to her poverty, Cha Deok<\/span> S<\/span>un was given permission by the government to travel between towns in North Korea to provide for herself. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>During her travels, Cha Deok<\/span> S<\/span>un evangelize<\/span>d<\/span> others<\/span>,\u201d says Representative Foley<\/span>. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>According to the video, she gave money to people who were poor, lower class, or suffering. She also found the descendants of several prominent Korean Christians and worshipped together with them. The video claims that these groups of underground Christians gathered every Sunday to worship, pray, sing hymns, and study the scripture\u2014even during the busiest farming season.<\/span> The video even <\/span>contains<\/span> photos of the Bibles and Christian materials Missionary <\/span>Cha<\/span> and other missionaries used.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”52208″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”Previously unknown North Korean Christian martyr Cha Deok Sun, whose story was preserved in an anti-religion training video created by North Korean authorities for security agents, obtained by Voice of the Martyrs Korea in 2018.” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:13px|text_align:center|color:%230a0101|line_height:1.45em”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The video describes Cha Deok Sun as a spy <\/span>seeking<\/span> to recruit other spies. \u201cThis is the typical definition of evangelism used in NK propaganda,\u201d says Representative Foley.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The video says that eventually, Cha Deok<\/span> S<\/span>un was reported by \u201ca good and awakened North Korean citizen.\u201d<\/span> But as Representative Foley notes, \u201cThe identity of that \u2018good and awakened citizen<\/span>\u2019<\/span> has been lost forever, but the Lord made sure that<\/span> the<\/span> story of Cha Deok Sun would not be lost but would be preserved by the persecutors who martyred her.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Representative Foley <\/span>believes that official North Korean government training videos like these are one of the ways that God preserves and spreads the stories of the underground North Korean Christians who are martyred because of their faithful witness to the Lord<\/span>, while also providing visual evidence that Bibles and Christian materials circulate inside North Korea<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”52207″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”Cha Deok Sun and other underground believers worshiping in an NK forest, from an anti-religion training video created by North Korean authorities for security agents, obtained by Voice of the Martyrs Korea in 2018. ” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:13px|text_align:center|color:%230a0101|line_height:1.45em”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201cScripture tells us that God\u2019s ways are not our ways,\u201d says Representative Foley. \u201cWe wrongly think that only Christians can be used to spread the gospel and to remember the stories of the martyrs. But through these training videos, God shows that he uses even the worst persecutors in human history to spread <\/span>his word and <\/span>the stor<\/span>ies<\/span> of his grace and mercy in<\/span>side<\/span> the most closed country on earth.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The video of Cha Deok<\/span> S<\/span>un can be seen at <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vz831mqMd_I<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> .<\/span> Individuals interested in learning more about Voice of the Martyrs Korea\u2019s North Korean ministry can visit <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/northkorea\/<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”52206″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”Christian materials shown in an NK government anti-religion training video obtained by Voice of the Martyrs Korea in 2018. ” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:13px|text_align:center|color:%230a0101|line_height:1.45em”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”52202″ img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”The story of two underground North Korean Christians captured while evangelizing North Korean soldiers was documented in a military training video obtained by Korean broadcaster KBS this …","protected":false},"author":659,"featured_media":52201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vomk-report"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en","zh","ru"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"zh":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52214,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52209\/revisions\/52214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}