DUBLIN, April 26 (CDN) — As refugees from North Korea and activists from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) gather in Seoul, South Korea this week to highlight human rights violations in the hermit kingdom, there are signs that North Korean citizens are accessing more ....
April 24 (CDN) — DUBLIN, April 24 (Compass Direct News) – Eom Myong-Heui of North Korea was a loyal communist in the Workers’ Party of Korea before she became a Christian under the influence of her business partner – a missionary who was later arrested and tortured ....
DUBLIN, April 23 (CDN) — Eom Myong-Heui of North Korea was a loyal communist in the Workers’ Party of Korea before she became a Christian under the influence of her business partner – a missionary who was later arrested and tortured into revealing that Eom was a believer. ....
April 28 (CDN) — BANGKOK, April 28 (Compass Direct News) – Former police and security officers in North Korea told a U.S. government body that their superiors had instructed them to play the role of Christians and infiltrate “underground” prayer meetings in order to ....
April 25 (CDN) — BANGKOK, April 25 (Compass Direct News) – Refugee testimonies in a report released this month by a U.S. government body confirm severe persecution of Christians throughout North Korea. In the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s ....
July 31 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, July 31 (Compass Direct News) – Douglas Shin is a Korean-American pastor living in Los Angeles who has built “underground railroads” for North Korean refugees since 2000 as leader of the “Exodus 21” movement. Compass Direct News caught ....
June 14 (CDN) — June 14 (Compass) – Communist authorities in Laos arrested 10 North Korean refugees and two South Korean activists in late May as they attempted to reach safety in neighboring Thailand, a South Korean newspaper reported on Friday (June 9). After ....
August 15 (CDN) — (Compass) — Two South Korean pastors and two laymen, imprisoned in China because of their pastoral and humanitarian work among North Korean refugees, await court decisions on their fate. Rev. Choi Bong Il, a veteran pastor of the Church of Holiness ....
April 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Catholic sources in Rome revealed in March that they consider the number of Catholics in North Korea to be 3,000 but added privately that the official Catholic church in this totalitarian state could be a \"complete sham.\" They also ....
December 15 (CDN) — (Compass) - A delegation from the Vatican concluded a visit to North Korea on November 14. They were sent to discuss a possible visit from the pope, proposed by South Korean President Kim Dae Jung at the June summit with his northern counterpart, ....
September 22 (CDN) — (Compass) - Reports tell of seven Christian men, from 15 to 58 years of age, who were executed in April for their faith. North Korea, a fanatically communist state, continues to hound all religious believers. Witnesses before the U.S. Congress in ....
May 19 (CDN) — (Compass) - Ten thousand North Korean refugees lie shivering in holes in the ground in northern China, awaiting certain discovery by Chinese police and rapid repatriation to an uncertain fate in North Korea, wrote a northern China citizen. The ....
February 18 (CDN) — (Compass) - A report of the U.S. Congressional Advisory Group in mid January declared North Korea to be \"the only place on earth where a hungry child wandering away from home is imprisoned.\" Quoting defectors, the report said there was a massive ....
