This is a rare political post for me. But I thought the concise sentiments of Norbert Vollertsen, a German doctor and human-rights activist who has worked in North Korea, quoted in the cover article of last week’s World magazine edition (pg. 19) was worth repeating. The comments are concise but clearly convey the obvious and tragic reality concerning North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Il.
“The current nuclear crisis with North Korea is a ‘chance’—to end the evil regime of Kim Jong Il. Since 2001 we human-rights activists were looking for more exposure of the human-rights violations of Kim Jong Il. Nobody cared. Then came 9/11 and the Iraq war and North Korea was called one member of the ‘axis of evil.’ It now has proved to really belong there.
We have also to refocus on human-right issues again. The ordinary North Korean people are nice human beings who are taken hostage and brainwashed by the criminal mafia clan around Kim Jong Il. And like any ordinary kidnapper he is threatening his victims, and blackmailing the outside world with his weapons.
Like any ordinary kidnapper: You can talk with him, negotiate, even make a deal to release his hostages—but in the end you have to arrest him.
How true and yet how sad. May God remove Kim Jong Il and usher in a great time of peace for North Korea and in so doing provide those people with the only message that provides for lasting and perfect peace—the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May Jesus be exalted in that country by whatever means God knows is best. Amen!
UPDATE: Check out this post on mission work being done in North Korea. The link at the bottom of that post takes you to a page where you can view a video of a North Korean execution (it is filmed from a long distance away and not very graphic, but viewer discretion is advised). After the shooting, the North Korean official in charge said these words to the onlooking crowd: “You have witnessed how miserable fools end up. Traitors who betray the nation and its people end up like this.” This video is more evidence that all of North Korea is hostage to the regime of Kim Jong Il, a mad kidnapper. Let us all purpose to pray for the work the believers and missionaries in North Korea.
Picture taken from here.
∼striving for the unity of the faith for the glory of God∼ Eph. 4:3,13 “¢ Rom. 15:5-7