ICC Note:
“She had to make a choice: the devil or the deep blue sea.” After suffering inside a North Korean labor camp for seven years, Ae-Cha could not handle the abuse anymore. She watched her husband tortured to death by prison guards and her daughter starve to death because they would not renounce their Christian faith. Ae-Cha needed to flee the evil regime of Kim Jong-un. However, her only means towards freedom was “the swift flowing, icy river” that separated her from China’s banks. Mustering all her strength, courage and faith, Ae-Cha plunged into the water’s icy claws.
02/15/2017 North Korea (Christian Today) – She had to make a choice: the devil or the deep blue sea.
Ae-Cha, a Christian woman, had just fled from a labour camp in North Korea with only the swift flowing, icy river separating her life of horrific slavery from the freedom that awaited her at the other side of the river in China.
Ae-Cha could not take it anymore and had to flee the evil regime of Kim Jong-un after seven years of suffering at the labour camp where she, her husband and their daughter were imprisoned because of their faith, according to Open Doors USA.
At the camp, she witnessed her husband tortured to death by prison guards. Her daughter also died from starvation.
Ae-Cha managed to escape from the prison compound, but the river posed a daunting challenge. If only she could survive the crossing, then freedom would be at hand.
She prayed, “After making it this far, Father, I’m certain that you’re with me and aiding my escape.”
Then mustering all her strength, courage and faith in Jesus, Ae-Cha plunged into the frigid waters.
It took just minutes for the icy river to paralyse her body. She closed her eyes, resigned to die.
But lo and behold! She opened her eyes again to find herself on the banks on the other side of the river—alive! There was no doubt in her mind that Jesus had saved her and carried her safely across the river.
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