Posted on 05/27/2023 1:32:39 PM PDT by grundle
North Korea offers freedom of religion to its citizens on paper but not in practice.
It has imprisoned tens of thousands of Christians, according to a State Department report, citing NGO research.
The recent report reveals executions and imprisonment for life for people caught with religious materials.
North Korea is notorious for the cruelty it inflicts on people deemed undesirable by the state. In the Hermit Kingdom that prizes weaponry over its own people, many of whom are starving and live in abject poverty, tens of thousands of Christians are said to be languishing in prisons.
A recently released Department of State report notes that while North Korea constitutionally allows for religious freedom, there is no such thing in practice.
The constitution vaguely states that religion must not harm the state or social order, giving authorities room to target those who seek to openly follow their faith.
The report from the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom, citing research conducted by non-governmental organizations which have gathered testimony from defectors, says as many as 70,000 Christians have been imprisoned in camps along with those believers from other religions.
One NGO, Open Doors USA, has reported that for Christians in North Korea, life is a "constant cauldron of pressure" and "capture or death is only a mistake away."
As State highlights in its report, North Korean government documents state that "freedom of religion is allowed and provided by the State law within the limit necessary for securing social order, health, social security, morality and other human rights."
Anything beyond that can land citizens in deep trouble.
People who have been arrested for religious crimes have reportedly faced detention and forced labor, torture, sexual violence, and death.
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Before they kill everyone, they will harvest as many organs as possible. They follow the Chicom model. People are cattle.
Are we being primed for war like the FBI primed Twitter for the laptop exposure with guided media? Like we don’t see this stuff as it’s transpiring...sheesh.
This is the world that the Marxists here want. But the GOD inspired Founding Fathers codified or GOD given 2nd.
I’ve heard that North Koreans feel compelled, to display portraits of Kim and his father and grandfather, as those people are deified in North Korea.
The only permissible worship in North Korea, is worship of the Kims.
It’s so strange, that these totalitarian regimes, have laws and constitutions, which on paper, give their people freedoms which they don’t really have in reality. These dear leaders like to show us they have the trappings of a parliamentary democracy or a republic.
Democrats using “democracy” is a marxist tell.
Democrats will do the same.
We’re closing in on this in this country. Soon, admitting to being a Christian will mean a death sentence. The sexual deviants outnumber us and they want our kids.
It's been that way since Day 1 with commies. It just shows that rights aren't worth the paper to print them on if the people are not willing to fight for them.
Hence the endangered 2nd Amendment and the vilification of people who support it.
They would like to. North Koreans don’t have guns.
Not at all surprising.
What is the POWER of the Holy Bible that it strikes such FEAR in the dark hearts of all tyrants? If it’s just a book of “fairy tales”, why would anyone fear that?
Because they fear the power of the truth, and deep down, they know that there leader is a loser.
Like Fahrenheit 451, too.
Get used to it.
We are not far behind.
On the bright side, God is keeping score and they can only kill you once then you are beyond their reach forever with great reward for the persecution and martyrdom, for ETERNITY.
Not that I would trade places with them in the flesh.
What the Left wants for this country.
The left is jealous of the dictatorial power that tyrants have.
The truth is a great threat to totalitarians.
coming soon to your local community
:-(
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