Repatriated North Koreans who read the Bible or met with Christians sent to prison camps
More than 200 North Korean refugees were forcibly returned from China last year. Of these, at least ten have been sent to political prison camps for reading the Bible, meeting with Christians or trying to get to South Korea. The true number may be higher.
“Christians are considered Western and South Korean spies by the North Korean authorities”, says Simon Lee*, an Open Doors fieldworker for ministry among North Koreans. “That’s why they are fiercely persecuted. One of the main tasks during interrogations of imprisoned defectors is to find out if they have been to church, read the Bible or met with Christians in China”
Please pray
- For the protection, wellbeing and release of the group sent to political prison camps
- That all imprisoned secret believers will have profound experiences of God’s nearness with them
- That the North Korean regime’s grip on its citizens will loosen.
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