North Korea

Matt and I were sick about a month ago (and Josiah and I have been wiped out for the past week as well), and we found some BBC Documentaries on our Amazon Prime account. We watched one we found on China, mostly about the landscape and wildlife of the country. Then we stumbled upon this:

We were flabbergasted. Correction: We are flabbergasted.
True we do not own cable, so we don't watch the news regularly like most Americans. But we are up to date on most news stories, are involved in world missions and even are recent college graduates. How did we not know that these sorts of things were happening in NK? Sure we knew about the country being closed, but this documentary opened our eyes into how the people of this country live.

We are also currently listening to the audiobook version of Escape from Camp 14, suggested to us by a friend.

Has anyone else known what this country is doing? Why did we not know? I guess this sort of thing happens in many countries. We follow an organization called the Voice of the Martyrs (a group that helps Christians who are being tortured and killed for Christ) and hear about brutality. But a whole country that is brainwashed? Look at this satellite photo at night:


The portion highlighted in red is North Korea. Barely any light is seen. What a illustration to how 'dark' the country is.

Matt and I have been burdened for this country now, as we continue to listen to how one man escaped a prison camp, as we pray to ask that God would show Himself to this country. So that we do not forget the North Koreans and their plight, every month on the 14th, we will eat boiled cabbage soup, the meager food that most of the lower class get everyday of their life. We will, however, eat it with rice, a luxury most Koreans cannot afford!

We join us as we pray for the Christians in this country, the oppressed people, and the cruel leaders, that all might submit to the "perfect law of liberty" which is the word of God.