Sunday, October 24, 2010

CAPE TOWN: 18-Year-Old North Korean Woman Recounts Persecution

CAPE TOWN: 18-Year-Old North Korean Woman Recounts Persecution

By David W. Virtue in Cape Town
www.virtueonline.org
October 23, 2010

Religious persecution came at a high price for Sook (not her real name), the 18-year old daughter of a former high-ranking assistant to North Korean leader, Kim Jeong II.

In a moving testimony that brought many to tears, some 4,200 participants at The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization heard Sook tell how in 1998, at the tender age of six, her father suffered severe political persecution forcing the family to flee to China. It was there that her parents came to know the amazing grace and love of God. Tragically, after only a few months, her mother, pregnant with their second child, suddenly died of leukaemia.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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