A balloon launch
Recently, Todd Nettleton of VOM Radio interviewed Dr. Eric Foley from VOM Korea. Dr. Foley talked about launching Bibles inside balloons into North Korea, where Christianity is illegal. Read below some interesting facts about North Korea from the interview.
*To the North Korean government, it’s worse to be a Christian than to be a thief or a murderer.
*2018 was the most difficult year for balloon launches. In the fall of the year, VOM Radio listeners were asked to pray for the launches. By the end of the year, 30,000 new Bibles had been placed in North Korea by balloons. (See a video about balloon launches from a previous year here.)
*“North Korea, the most closed country in the world, is the only country in the world where Bibles fall from the sky,” said Dr. Foley.
*To the North Korean government, sending Bibles into their country is worse than sending missiles.
*When we started balloon launching, zero percent of people inside North Korea had ever seen a Bible with their own eyes,” said Dr. Foley. “Now more than eight percent of North Korean people have seen a Bible.”
*Some ways that Christians share the gospel with North Korea are secret. It’s better to “pray about it a lot and talk about it a little.”
*North Koreans are expected to worship their former leader, Kim Il Sung, who is now dead. “[North Korea] is the only neocracy in the world — the only country ruled by a dead man,” said Dr. Foley. (Kim Jong Un, the grandson of Kim Il Sung, is the current living leader of North Korea.)
Statues of Kim Il Sung and his son
Can you use the seven facts above to guide you in prayer for North Korea?
To learn about North Korean Christians, download Bold Believers in North Korea from the Downloads section.
