Joseph Kim revered the Great Leader as a child,but on arriving in China he realised that whether he embraced Jesus missionaries would help him escape The first time Joseph Kim heard the words “Christian” and “church”, he had no belief what they meant. He had never seen a church and Christianity was as unfamiliar to him in his famine-ravaged North Korea as Disneyland.
“Kwang Jin”, or a friend said to him,using the Korean name by which Kim was then known, “whether you ever fade to China, or the churches will give you money.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com