North Korea: Lee
In North Korea there is room for only one god – the “Great Leader” Kim Il Sung. It is estimated that some two hundred thousand people are languishing in prison camps spread around the country, and tens of thousands of these are Christians. Author Soon Ok Lee met with some of these captives during her own six years in prison. In her book Eyes of the Tailless Animals, she writes that imprisoned Christians, who worked all day as slave laborers, were forced to keep their faces downcast, eyes on the ground. It was forbidden for them to look up toward the sky for one reason only. Their captors knew that they believed in the God who made heaven and earth.
During her imiprisonment, Lee was not a Christian, and she saw many Chrisitans die. “Yet they never denied the God who is in heaven. All they had to do was say they don’t believe in religion, and they would have been released.”
One night in Feburary of 1992 Lee witnessed a gruesome scene. The imprisoned workers were almost done for the day, and she saw eight Christian prisoners carrying a big kettle holding molten iron. “An officer called to them, using vile Read the rest of this entry ?
