Tag: North Korea

Animation highlights N. Korea religious violations

August 31, 2016 North Korea Communism, North Korea, South Korea

Claims reported today in by South Korea that North Korea has executed a top official from its own cabinet highlight the risks of falling foul of the communist dictatorship – also faced by groups such as Christians. Their fate is usefully explained in a from the International Coalition to Stop . . . Read More

U.S. pins N Korea atrocities on Kim

July 6, 2016 North Korea Censorship, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, USA

The U.S. government has, for the first time, officially pinned North Korea’s “serious human-rights abuses” upon Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un personally, as well as upon 14 high-ranking officials in the country’s military, security and party agencies. In a in Washington, D.C., the State Department laid at Kim’s feet the responsibility . . . Read More

Pew reports decline in religious restrictions

June 28, 2016 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Religious freedom, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Terrorism

In its latest report, Pew Research Center says there was an overall decline in religious restrictions and hostilities between 2013 and 2014, despite a continued rise in religion-related terrorism. The US-based “fact tank” ranked 198 countries and territories in the seventh report of its kind, titled “Trends in Global Restrictions . . . Read More

Pastor who helped N. Korea defectors found dead

May 4, 2016 North Korea China, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea

A pastor who helped North Korean refugees escape their homeland has been found dead near the border with China. Rights activists suspect , quoting Yonhap, the official Korean news agency. Korean-Chinese pastor Han Choong Yeol, 49, well-known for helping North Korean defectors, left his home in Chiangbai, a Chinese town . . . Read More

US religious-freedom report urges government to add 7 countries to worst-offenders list

May 2, 2016 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, BJP, Boko Haram, Central African Republic, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Europe, India, Iraq, Middle East, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Taliban, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

What is happening? The primary US government agency on global religious freedom issued its annual report 2 May. It says “religious freedom abroad has been under serious and sustained assault” during the past year, and says America should add seven countries to its list of worst offenders: Central African Republic . . . Read More

Foreigners in North Korea – what to expect if arrested

April 27, 2016 North Korea Jeffrey Fowle, Kenneth Bae, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, USA

Foreigners arrested and detained in North Korea can expect to spend hundreds of days in prison, . The 13 US citizens detained since 1995 – including the Christians Jeffrey Fowle, Aijalon Gomes and Korean-American Kenneth Bae – spent an average of 213 days imprisoned. to 15 years’ hard labour, has . . . Read More

North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ labour

March 16, 2016 North Korea House churches, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Jong Wook, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang

North Korea has sentenced a 21-year-old US student to 15 years’ hard labour following his “confession” to stealing a piece of political propaganda during his trip at the request of his church in Wyoming, Ohio. Otto Warmbier, a third-year economics student at the University of Virginia, was arrested on 2 . . . Read More

N Korea detains US man ‘stealing’ for his church

February 29, 2016 North Korea China, Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Pyongyang, USA

A US student held in North Korea since early January was detained for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his Pyongyang hotel and has confessed to “severe crimes” against the state, . Otto Warmbier, 21, a student at the University of Virginia, was detained before boarding . . . Read More

China accuses Canadian Christian of spying

February 2, 2016 China, Kim Jong Wook, North Korea

A Canadian Christian who ran a coffee shop on China’s border with North Korea has been charged with spying and stealing state secrets, . Kevin Garratt, who has been detained since August 2014, worked for the Canada-based Christian organisation, North Star Aid, and ran a coffee shop in Dandong, which . . . Read More

North Korea-held US-Korean ‘spy’ said to be pastor

January 14, 2016 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Dong Chul, North Korea, USA

A Korean-American in detention in North Korea is in fact a Christian pastor, not a spy, according to a North Korean defector who met him in 2007, . On 11 Jan., the American broadcaster, CNN, was allowed to interview Kim Dong Chul in the presence of North Korean officials. He . . . Read More

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