I find the nation of North Korea almost endlessly fascinating. There seems to be no way that anyone born and raised in a free nation can understand the level of control and paranoia that exists inside “The Hermit Kingdom.” And very few of us will ever be allowed to visit.
Suki Kim was allowed to visit…and even to live in North Korea. She was hired to teach English at a university in Pyongyang. While teaching, she was also collecting material for a book. That book, “Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite,” was published last year.
It is a fascinating read. Kim does not claim to be a Christian, though those who hired her to teach at the university believed that she was. One of the more fascinating parts, to me, was her report on being taken to “church” in North Korea, a stage-managed experienced designed to convince the foreigners that there were both openly-practicing Christians and religious freedom in North Korea. Here is how she tells the story:
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