Posted in North Korea, Open Doors USA, Persecution, tagged North Korea Freedom Week, Open Doors USA on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Famine
NK has been facing a severe food shortage since the mid 1990’s. According to Amnesty International, this crisis developed for a number of reasons including constraints within the country’s economic system, the collapse of strategic economic ties following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the decline in trade with China following its normalization [...]
Posted in North Korea, Open Doors USA, Persecution, tagged North Korea Freedom Week, Open Doors USA on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prisoners
North Korea is often described as one huge prison, but in fact, there are various types of prisons distinguished by finely calibrated levels of brutality. Kim Jong Il describes those who have opposed his rule as “cancers that must be cut out.” In NK this means death or prison. Punishment is not limited to the [...]
Posted in North Korea, Open Doors USA, Persecution, tagged North Korea Freedom Week, Open Doors USA on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Leadership
Many have said that North Korea is the most rigidly controlled place on Earth. It is an oppressive, classically totalitarian nation that, like other absolutist states, has no tolerance for any kind of dissent or even discussion of political and economic issues. What does this mean for the N. Korean people? Slavery.
Please pray for:
■ Softening [...]
Posted in China, North Korea, Open Doors USA, Tibet, tagged Chinese Consulate, North Korea, North Korea Freedom Week, Tibet on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had a great turn out at the protest today! We worshipped, prayed, and showed our love and support for those suffering in North Korea and Tibet.
Here are some pics of the event….
Posted in China, North Korea, Persecution, Tibet, tagged Internationl Olympic Committee, North Korea, Olympic torch, Refugees, Tibet protest on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So far the Olympic torch has been met with protests, arrests, controversy, persecution, and major media attention. It’s also forced the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to rethink this whole torch around the world relay for future Olympics.
The torch is set to travel to Pyongyang, North Korea on April 28th. Thousands of N. Koreans have [...]
Posted in China, North Korea, Open Doors USA, Persecution, Tibet, tagged Advocacy, Chinese Consulate, Free Tibet, North Korea, North Korea Freedom Week, protest, Tibet on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Be a voice for those in North Korea AND Tibet! Free Tibet is a campaign started in 1987, it generates active support to end China’s occupation of Tibet and for the Tibetan’s fundamental human rights to be respected.
What do they have in common? Why the 2 protests together? Because they are BOTH [...]
Posted in China, North Korea, Open Doors USA, Persecution, tagged Advocacy, Chinese Consulate, North Korea Freedom Week, protest, Refugees on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Next week is North Korea Freedom Week! To help kick off the week, please join us this Saturday at the LA Chinese Consulate from 12 – 2PM. We’ll have a time of worship and prayer as we rally for the Chinese governement to stop sending back North Koreans to the communist dominated country.
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