{"id":572,"date":"2008-03-29T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T23:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=572"},"modified":"2008-03-29T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T23:27:24","slug":"north-korean-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/north-korean-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persecution.com\/news\/index.cfm?action=fullstory&#038;newsID=599\">The Voice of the Martyrs<\/a>, this:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>NORTH KOREA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Voice of the Martyrs is calling on the Communist North Korean government to immediately release 10 college students in Ham Kyung Book Do Chung, North Korea, who were investigated and arrested for reading a Bible and watching a video CD about the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>According to Free North Korea Broadcasting, Mr. Jung, former vice-president of GumRung Company of the Rodong Dang Labor Organization Department, reported the case and has since escaped to China to avoid arrest by the National Security Agency (Bowiboo). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In March 2006, 200 Life Bibles and several hundred CDs were purchased in China and secretly placed in flour bags before being smuggled into North Korea. This huge Bible smuggling case was headed by GumRung Company employees who were influenced by Christianity in China and underground Christians in Nasun City. All the leaders have been arrested and are being severely tortured. If I am caught, I will be sent to a prison camp for political criminals. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to die in prison camp, so I escaped,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Jung said.<\/p>\n<p>In the Free North Korea Broadcasting report, Mr. Jung added that most of the arrested students attended ChungJin College. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These students shared the Bible and video CD with their friends. They also distributed the Bibles and video CDs to the other college towns,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>And what were <i>you<\/i> fussing about earlier today?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Voice of the Martyrs, this: NORTH KOREA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Voice of the Martyrs is calling on the Communist North Korean government to immediately release 10 college students in Ham Kyung Book Do Chung, North Korea, who were investigated and arrested for reading a Bible and watching a video CD about the Bible. 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