South Korea Commandment

In writing Escaping North Korea Mike Kim brought to light the struggles North Koreans face in North Korea, then escaping, and seeking asylum. Kim, before working on the China-Korea boarder, had his own financial planning business but one trip to China changed his world drastically. After hearing the stories of North Korean refugees, Kim found his calling to help these refugees escape a tyrant leadership and create a new life for themselves. Kim in writing Escaping North Korea described his experiences in aiding these refugees escape a repressive country. Escaping North Korea addresses the aspects of life in North Korea that led for them to escape, the problems they face once crossing to China and the

Sookan and her family had just gotten news from her father, saying that him and his four eldest sons were safe in Seoul. Sookan was ecstatic to know that they were safe and well, but wondered why her family that was left behind in North Korea hadn’t been the first priority. “Mother stretched out her arms and Inchun and I ran to them.How good it was to know that father was alive and well, and that my three brothers were safe in Seoul. And how wonderful to know that father would be coming to take us to the South. Yet I wondered how it was that he had left us here so long. I wish that he had come for us earlier, as he had for his sons. Why had he left us for last?”(118) Sookan was the only daughter, and the second youngest in the household. Growing up, family is a very important part to anyone's life, and it’s extremely rare for you to questions your parents judgement or actions when you are growing up. But Sookan did just that when she asked herself if her fathers decisions on saving the eldest boys first was really the right thing to

Two dictators with bias opinions, both ran a country under communism and discriminated religions while other were petrified to speak up, therefore living in fear of what could happen to them. Sarah’s family, as well as many others were arrested and taken to a concentration and labor camp in France during the Holocaust. A similar action, but with slightly less extremity is taking place in North Korea at the moment, as Christians are forced to hide their religious beliefs as,” The North Korean regime has continued to position itself as one of the world’s worst persecutors of the religious, torturing and killing people who practice their faith”.   The religious discrimination in North Korea resembles much like the early years of the Holocaust  because, “The Commission has received reports that officials have arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and sometimes executed North Korean citizens who are found to have ties with overseas Christian evangelical groups operating across the border in China, as well as those who engage in unauthorized religious activities such as public religious expression and persuasion” (United States Commission on International Religious Freedom).

Perhaps most intriguing, Jenkins said that he had heard reports of a work crew of captive white men, whom he believed to be American prisoners of war. For many years, rumors circulated that American POWs from the Korean War remained in North Korea, but Jenkins said he understood the captives to be younger POWs, from the Vietnam War, sent by the North Vietnamese to Pyongyang as thanks for North Korean assistance during the war. He said that he thought they had been imprisoned at a “model farm” called Chongsan-ri. What North Korea would want with a work crew of American men is not obvious—the country has plenty of indigenous labor. The greater goal of assembling a menagerie of captive Westerners, Jenkins thinks, was to breed them. They would

The Church Refused to Look Like the Community. Dying churches are concerned with self-preservation. The way of doing church is fare more important to these churches, than adapting to reach the demographics of where God has divinely placed them.

Jong’s family economic situation: Mr. Jong works a lot and Mrs. Jong stays at home with the kids. In Christmas they receive donation from the local church. From all of this we can infer they are poor.

Summary     Captain Lee, a young South Korean officer and retired professor at a university in Seoul, South Korea has been placed in the city of Pyongyang where his headquarters is located. He has been given the assignment of investigating the twelve martyrs of North Korean christian ministers by the Communists. While investigating, Lee begins to question the accountability of the martyrs; according to information given to him by two of the surviving ministers. While the North Korean forces continue to push forward, Captain Lee works to uncover the truth and questions his own faith. Historical/Cultural Context    

When Korea was controlled under Japan, Japanese forced Koreans to change their names into Japanese. Also, Sun-hee and Sun-hee’s old brother, Tae-yul, studied Japanese in school instead of Korean. So Sun-hee’s uncle felt angry, and one day, he disappeared. Tae-yul found out that he was participating in an independence movement. To find him, Tae-yul volunteered to be Kamikaze, which is the group of Japanese suicide pilots. Fortunately, the plan failed, and Tae-yul could come back home. Furthermore, the family heard that his uncle was alive in China.

Born into a prison camp Shin Dong-hyuk old had witnessed the terrors of North Korean prison camps day in and day out. But he never understood why he had to starve, and be tortured daily. Shin never knew that there was a world

- Firstly, why must both Otto Warmbier and the Christian missionary to be there, in North Korean? Why must both of them choose 'North Korean' as country that they want to visit?

Sookan's family is so happy to be able to act Korean again, but soon the Russians come in to take over Korea. They recruit everyone to be a good Communist and work hard to build a workers' paradise. In fact, the people are no better off than they were before, because they still have to work as slave laborers for very little food, while constantly being barraged with propaganda. Sookan's family pretends to love the Communist Party, while they plan their escape to the south. Sookan, Inchun, and Mother run away in the night, paying a guide a lot of money to take them across the border of the thirty-eighth parallel, where Korea is divided. After a harrowing train ride and a day of running and walking, Mother is separated from the children, and they discover that their guide is a double agent, who has betrayed

1. Keith Howard, ed., True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women (New York: Cassell, 1995), 95-123.

After the party, Nam was leaving the north guard house door open show a Lieutenant who was check on Jeong and Oh. The Lieutenant pulls his gun on Nam and forces his back into the guardhouse and Soo-hyeok pull his gun at the Lieutenant, which Oh tries to calm everyone down. However, Nam shot the Lieutenant and Jeong, who shot Soo-hyeok in the leg that led him to shot Jeong in the head and Oh shot the Lieutenant in the head. Than Oh, Nam and Soo-hyeok agree on the conspiracy that Soo-hyeok was kidnapped by the north and that Soo-hyeok entered the guard house start shooting at the three North Koreans without a reason. However, the more Sophie Jean investigate the more she realistic that both soldiers were lying to protect themselves and the other soldier. The character that I find interesting was Soo-hyeok because he was not scary to interact and cross the north border to befriend Oh and

If our vertical relationship is not maintained and kept healthy then it only points to one major problem and that is we are out of fellowship with God. Jesus knew that people could see the difference whether people were sincere or not. That’s why he stressed the importance of a right relationship with God so that when we do good works or witness people will know we are sincere. Wheeler and Whaley write; “Our daily actions toward all people, believers and non-believer should reflect a commitment to life style worship evangelism.” The size of our churches and budgets due not matter in winning souls for Christ. We must understand that if people know that we love God and love them we then can have a great opportunity to share the gospel. The authors write; “worship and witness are best demonstrated in how we react to, reach out to, treat, manage, talk with and pray for people.”

Hyeonseo Lee gave a presentation on TED Talk entitled, “My Escape from North Korea”, summarizing about her life in North Korea. She was born and raised there and sing patriotic songs. All the history books told her that North Korea was the best country in the world. As she got older, a famine struck North Korea in the mid-1990’s. Although, she never experienced starvation, she witnessed the events first hand. This was the pushing point for Hyeonseo, who decided to leave North Korea. Due to China and North Korea’s stringent border policies and the Chinese government immigration policy, the life of a North Korean refugee is challenging and extremely risky. They risk being deported back to the very country that they escaped from. There are reports and stories about the violation of human rights and labor camps in North Korea. She would live in China for ten years before moving to South Korea. Hyeonseo was forced to help her family escape from North Korea. The regime caught Hyeonseo for sending money to her family. Lee’s family to be relocated by the order of the North Korean government. She needed to smuggle them through China to a South Korean embassy in Laos. Unfortunately, Hyeonseo Lee’s story won’t be the last we hear about the abysmal conditions in North Korea. There are, potentially millions more, stories detailing the humanitarian disaster in the country and we must take steps to prepare for the eventual collapse of the country.