ICC Note:

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has launched five successful nuclear tests causing a treat to nearby states, but also to that of the world. Kim also asserts that he is ‘god,’ therefore, religious freedom is non-existent in Korea. Christianity affirms there is one God  and since it is associated with the West, Christians are targeted. Despite the harsh agenda to eliminate Christians in North Korea, Open Doors estimates there are between 200,000 and 400,000 Christians in North Korea. The exact number is not fully known since Christians must keep their faith a secret in order to avoid being detained in North Korea’s notorious labor camps.  

09/14/2016 North Korea (Mission Network News) – South Korea is “getting ready for the worst case scenario,” says the country’s Defense Ministry. This, after North Korea claimed last week to have successfully conducted its fifth nuclear test, and has the capability to mount another at any time.

Open Doors USA spokeswoman Emily Fuentes says, “North Korea has done the most they’ve done in a long time in testing recently.  It is cause for concern; it is cause for speculation on what they might be doing and what their plans might be for war against the world.”

This year, the reclusive nation has been increasing its pace in testing weapons and improving its nuclear and missile capabilities.  South Korea is readying a defense, warning it will annihilate Pyongyang if North Korea looks like it is going to attack.

It’s enough to alarm the international community. The UN Security Council, along with Japan, South Korea, and the United States are looking at additional sanctions, a move which North Korea shrugs off.

North Korea has been undeterred despite being banned by the UN from any tests of nuclear or missile technology.  Five sets of UN sanctions since 2006 failed to slow its ambition for nuclear arms.  In March, sanctions prohibited North Korea from supplying aviation fuel and the sale of small arms.  Four months later, the Obama administration hit Kim Jong Un and 10 other regime officials with personal sanctions for human rights abuses against the North Korean people.

Fuentes explains that part of those abuses include the elimination of Christians.  “According to his ideology, he’s essentially ‘god’; the Kim dynasty is ‘god,’ and because Christianity is associated with the West, it’s a double whammy, a double threat, so Christians are targeted.”

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