Comments on: Korean Church Coalition Joins N. Korean Human Rights Movement, and an Appeal for a Condemned Man http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: House of Chosun » Blog Archive » Bibles buried in the backyard http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-54377 House of Chosun » Blog Archive » Bibles buried in the backyard Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:15:20 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-54377 [...]   If Son still lives, he sits on death row in Pyongyang for spreading his faith.  You will recall that I previously wrote about him here, and told you how you can join in a campaign to save his life.  Newsweek estimates that there are between 20,000 and 100,000 underground Christians in North Korea. You can’t bring Christianity to such a place on a shiny bus. It takes resourcefulness, guile, courage, and determination to pull something like this off. This kind: Missionaries say Christians often keep their Bibles buried in the backyard, wrapped in vinyl. Preachers based in China sometimes conduct services by mobile phone. In five to 10 minutes the pastor reads Bible passages and prays for the sick and needy. Services are kept short; the regime uses GPS trackers to locate the phones.  [Newsweek, Christian Caryl and B.J. Lee] [...] [...]   If Son still lives, he sits on death row in Pyongyang for spreading his faith.  You will recall that I previously wrote about him here, and told you how you can join in a campaign to save his life.  Newsweek estimates that there are between 20,000 and 100,000 underground Christians in North Korea. You can’t bring Christianity to such a place on a shiny bus. It takes resourcefulness, guile, courage, and determination to pull something like this off. This kind: Missionaries say Christians often keep their Bibles buried in the backyard, wrapped in vinyl. Preachers based in China sometimes conduct services by mobile phone. In five to 10 minutes the pastor reads Bible passages and prays for the sick and needy. Services are kept short; the regime uses GPS trackers to locate the phones.  [Newsweek, Christian Caryl and B.J. Lee] [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Newsweek Reports on Son Jong Nam, North Korea’s Only (Possibly) Living Dissident http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-53753 OneFreeKorea » Newsweek Reports on Son Jong Nam, North Korea’s Only (Possibly) Living Dissident Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:32:58 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-53753 [...] A new Newsweek piece about North Korea’s underground movement reports on the plight of Son Jong Nam.  If Son still lives, he sits on death row in Pyongyang for spreading his faith.  You will recall that I previously wrote about him here, and told you how you can join in a campaign to save his life.  Newsweek estimates that there are between 20,000 and 100,000 underground Christians in North Korea. You can’t bring Christianity to such a place on a shiny bus. It takes resourcefulness, guile, courage, and determination to pull something like this off. This kind: Missionaries say Christians often keep their Bibles buried in the backyard, wrapped in vinyl. Preachers based in China sometimes conduct services by mobile phone. In five to 10 minutes the pastor reads Bible passages and prays for the sick and needy. Services are kept short; the regime uses GPS trackers to locate the phones.  [Newsweek, Christian Caryl and B.J. Lee] [...] [...] A new Newsweek piece about North Korea’s underground movement reports on the plight of Son Jong Nam.  If Son still lives, he sits on death row in Pyongyang for spreading his faith.  You will recall that I previously wrote about him here, and told you how you can join in a campaign to save his life.  Newsweek estimates that there are between 20,000 and 100,000 underground Christians in North Korea. You can’t bring Christianity to such a place on a shiny bus. It takes resourcefulness, guile, courage, and determination to pull something like this off. This kind: Missionaries say Christians often keep their Bibles buried in the backyard, wrapped in vinyl. Preachers based in China sometimes conduct services by mobile phone. In five to 10 minutes the pastor reads Bible passages and prays for the sick and needy. Services are kept short; the regime uses GPS trackers to locate the phones.  [Newsweek, Christian Caryl and B.J. Lee] [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » The Death of an Alliance, Part 67 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-53410 OneFreeKorea » The Death of an Alliance, Part 67 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:57:34 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-53410 [...] Surely South Korea has differences with China — or should have – but we didn’t see such an adolescent display when Roh met Hu Jin Tao last week.  When it comes to South Korea’s discussions with China and North Korea, the Blue House blows smoke about “quiet diplomacy” and leaves it up to us to infer that it’s exercising responsible statecraft and thinking of the interests of, say, thousands of its abducted citizens, even when reality supports no such inference.  Can anyone still argue that South Korea is an ally of the United States to any greater extent than dozens of other nations we merely refer to as “trading partners?” [...] [...] Surely South Korea has differences with China — or should have – but we didn’t see such an adolescent display when Roh met Hu Jin Tao last week.  When it comes to South Korea’s discussions with China and North Korea, the Blue House blows smoke about “quiet diplomacy” and leaves it up to us to infer that it’s exercising responsible statecraft and thinking of the interests of, say, thousands of its abducted citizens, even when reality supports no such inference.  Can anyone still argue that South Korea is an ally of the United States to any greater extent than dozens of other nations we merely refer to as “trading partners?” [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Valor, and The Better Part of It: How Misguided Christian Missionaries and Their Liberal Government Joined Forces to Boost a Medieval Islamic Death Cult http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-51550 OneFreeKorea » Valor, and The Better Part of It: How Misguided Christian Missionaries and Their Liberal Government Joined Forces to Boost a Medieval Islamic Death Cult Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:42:33 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-51550 [...] The victims are not villains, but they are also unworthy of comparison to the intrepid South Korean missionaries who are infiltrating into North Korea or smuggling refugees through China, and who face great risks knowing that there is no hope of resue or ransom if they’re caught.  When was the last time you heard a South Korean official call on China or North Korea to release any Korean refugee, missionary, abductee, or prisoner of war, much less plunk down cash to free one?  South Korean officials are far more likely to collude with Chinese or North Korea captors of their citizens than lift a finger to free them.  By all accounts (here, here), plenty of North Koreans are ready to be changed by South Korean missionaries.  By all accounts, virtually no Afghans are.  In North Korea and in the safehouses of China’s underground railroad, missionaries are changing societies and saving lives.  In Afghanistan, this particular group of missionaries has given the death cult its biggest propaganda coup of a year in which it has had some significant military setbacks.  The difference between the underground railroad and the Afghan hostages is the difference between clandestine sophistication and a march of lemmings.  Take it from no less an authority than the Reverend Tim Peters: “Vacation missionaries [go] to war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, and you get them in situations where they are way out of their depth ….”  [WSJ, Opinion Journal] [...] [...] The victims are not villains, but they are also unworthy of comparison to the intrepid South Korean missionaries who are infiltrating into North Korea or smuggling refugees through China, and who face great risks knowing that there is no hope of resue or ransom if they’re caught.  When was the last time you heard a South Korean official call on China or North Korea to release any Korean refugee, missionary, abductee, or prisoner of war, much less plunk down cash to free one?  South Korean officials are far more likely to collude with Chinese or North Korea captors of their citizens than lift a finger to free them.  By all accounts (here, here), plenty of North Koreans are ready to be changed by South Korean missionaries.  By all accounts, virtually no Afghans are.  In North Korea and in the safehouses of China’s underground railroad, missionaries are changing societies and saving lives.  In Afghanistan, this particular group of missionaries has given the death cult its biggest propaganda coup of a year in which it has had some significant military setbacks.  The difference between the underground railroad and the Afghan hostages is the difference between clandestine sophistication and a march of lemmings.  Take it from no less an authority than the Reverend Tim Peters: “Vacation missionaries [go] to war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, and you get them in situations where they are way out of their depth ….”  [WSJ, Opinion Journal] [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Not Ready http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-50617 OneFreeKorea » Not Ready Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:49:57 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-50617 [...] So it tends to go with elevating fresh faces to high office.  What has me thinking about this is Barack Obama, who managed to say something I approved of last week, which is what politicians try to do in election years.  Since then, he’s taken a lot of criticism for his enthusiastic youbetcha after being asked whether he would “be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea.”  A voter unfamiliar with diplomacy may not see the naivete of this, and an especially savvy voter could even see opportunity in such a meeting, since it could be a bold way to challenge an unpopular dictator on his home turf, including in the eyes of his own people, and bring attention to that dictator’s worst abuses in the very way that Bill Richardson never would.  It might have been possible to deny that Obama had shown himself as Not Ready, until this: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there. [...] [...] So it tends to go with elevating fresh faces to high office.  What has me thinking about this is Barack Obama, who managed to say something I approved of last week, which is what politicians try to do in election years.  Since then, he’s taken a lot of criticism for his enthusiastic youbetcha after being asked whether he would “be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea.”  A voter unfamiliar with diplomacy may not see the naivete of this, and an especially savvy voter could even see opportunity in such a meeting, since it could be a bold way to challenge an unpopular dictator on his home turf, including in the eyes of his own people, and bring attention to that dictator’s worst abuses in the very way that Bill Richardson never would.  It might have been possible to deny that Obama had shown himself as Not Ready, until this: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there. [...]

]]> By: LMPG http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-50337 LMPG Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:01:58 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-50337 Videos of the West Lawn Rally, then follow the other related links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or5-LA_GeME Videos of the West Lawn Rally, then follow the other related links.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or5-LA_GeME

]]> By: LMPG http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-50323 LMPG Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:56:02 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-50323 Joshua, go to letmypeoplego2008.com, click Newsletter on the left, then July 20. Also, I think youtube will also have some videos uploaded later this week. Go to youtube.com, then click KCC or Korean Church Coalition. I am told that there will be another large rally in April, 2008. All of you out there should attend and and show your support. Joshua, go to letmypeoplego2008.com, click Newsletter on the left, then July 20. Also, I think youtube will also have some videos uploaded later this week. Go to youtube.com, then click KCC or Korean Church Coalition.

I am told that there will be another large rally in April, 2008. All of you out there should attend and and show your support.

]]> By: Joshua http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-50187 Joshua Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:05:41 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-50187 LMPG, Do you have some photographs you could share? Any estimate on the number in attendance? LMPG, Do you have some photographs you could share? Any estimate on the number in attendance?

]]> By: Let My People Go http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-50165 Let My People Go Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:29:41 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-50165 The July 17th KCC Let My People Go Before the Beijing Olympics is history, but remember that KCC also pulled off two more significant events, a Press Conference at the National Press Club in the morning, then the Noon West Lawn rally, then the eventing prayer vigil. And having spoken to some Washington folks who has been around the circle on NK Human Rights, like Bruce Lee, Sean Woo, Suzanne Scholte, Michael Horowitz and Jay Ku, they were all flabergasted. They were so excited, many could not talk. Many said KCC does not what they started. And knowing KCC, they will only grow bigger and better. Man, did you see the determined eyes of those pastors and KCC staff. They are on a mission and they will not stop until they finish. Whether or not they were successful or not, only time will tell, but the Rally was on July 17th, since then Senators Ensin signed on to the Brownback resolution, one more congressman endorsed the KCC's Let My People Go campaign, one senior well known congressman said he will introduce a let my people go resolution in the House, Senators Clinton, Cardin, Hoyer, Feinstein, and many many others are looking into whether they will endores the KCC campaign. McCain seemed to have been the biggest dissapointment, but that's understandable because of the iraq issues in the Senate when KCC visited. But then, so was Clinton's, but her staff was as courteous as an angel, or so I am told. And from what I hear, KCC has four more major activities planned before the Beijing Olympics. So, you guys judge for your self, has KCC reenergized the NK Human rights issue. I think they exploded it. Hey, you Korean Americans out there, you can make a difference, so get involved, whether it's LINK, KCC, or whatever, every voice counts. The July 17th KCC Let My People Go Before the Beijing Olympics is history, but remember that KCC also pulled off two more significant events, a Press Conference at the National Press Club in the morning, then the Noon West Lawn rally, then the eventing prayer vigil. And having spoken to some Washington folks who has been around the circle on NK Human Rights, like Bruce Lee, Sean Woo, Suzanne Scholte, Michael Horowitz and Jay Ku, they were all flabergasted. They were so excited, many could not talk. Many said KCC does not what they started. And knowing KCC, they will only grow bigger and better. Man, did you see the determined eyes of those pastors and KCC staff. They are on a mission and they will not stop until they finish. Whether or not they were successful or not, only time will tell, but the Rally was on July 17th, since then Senators Ensin signed on to the Brownback resolution, one more congressman endorsed the KCC’s Let My People Go campaign, one senior well known congressman said he will introduce a let my people go resolution in the House, Senators Clinton, Cardin, Hoyer, Feinstein, and many many others are looking into whether they will endores the KCC campaign. McCain seemed to have been the biggest dissapointment, but that’s understandable because of the iraq issues in the Senate when KCC visited. But then, so was Clinton’s, but her staff was as courteous as an angel, or so I am told. And from what I hear, KCC has four more major activities planned before the Beijing Olympics. So, you guys judge for your self, has KCC reenergized the NK Human rights issue. I think they exploded it. Hey, you Korean Americans out there, you can make a difference, so get involved, whether it’s LINK, KCC, or whatever, every voice counts.

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Reminder: ‘Let My People Go’ Rally, Noon Tomorrow on the West Lawn of the Capitol http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/comment-page-1/#comment-49871 OneFreeKorea » Reminder: ‘Let My People Go’ Rally, Noon Tomorrow on the West Lawn of the Capitol Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:49:18 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/07/12/korean-church-coalition-joins-n-korean-human-rights-movement-and-an-appeal-for-a-condemned-man/#comment-49871 [...] The Korean Church Coalition picks up an impressive and somewhat surprising endorsement in advance of tomorrow’s rally.  [...] [...] The Korean Church Coalition picks up an impressive and somewhat surprising endorsement in advance of tomorrow’s rally.  [...]

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