Cardinal Cheong Jin Suk said today, \u201cWe must distinguish the North Korean people from the regime.\u201d <\/p>\n
Speaking on a radio show of the Peace Broadcasting Company (PBC), he added, \u201cThe people of North Korea are indeed the brethren we have to take care of.\u201d <\/p>\n
Cardinal Cheong pointed out that, \u201cRegarding the North Korean regime, it is not so easy to talk about,\u201d adding, \u201cThe thing I can talk about with certainty is that there is no freedom of religion (in North Korea). Nobody knows how many Catholics are in North Korea. There are no priests and no nuns. The situation for Protestants is the same. It is sad. This is the situation of the North Korean people.\u201d <\/p>\n
He claimed, \u201cWho is it who doesn\u2019t recognize freedom of religion and blocks news from the outside? It is the North Korean regime. Why are the people of North Korea starving? Who is responsible for begging for rice? It\u2019s not the people\u2019s fault, but it\u2019s the regime\u2019s.\u201d He reiterated, \u201cTherefore, we must distinguish the people from the regime.\u201d <\/p>\n
The cardinal asserted, \u201cWe cannot give aid to the North Korean people through the North\u2019s regime,\u201d and added, \u201cIt is truly regrettable that we don\u2019t have any other way to express our love for the people except through the North\u2019s regime.\u201d <\/p>\n
He added that, \u201cI ardently pray that God will look after the poor North Korean people and somehow prepare some way for them to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cardinal Cheong Jin Suk said today, \u201cWe must distinguish the North Korean people from the regime.\u201d Speaking on a radio show of the Peace Broadcasting Company (PBC), he added, \u201cThe people of North Korea are indeed the brethren we have to take care of.\u201d Cardinal Cheong pointed out that, \u201cRegarding the North Korean regime, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":14191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n