[imText1]North Korean authorities are nervous about South Korean missionaries sending the Bibles via balloons to the North. <\/p>\n
Recently, a South Korean missionary organization obtained a (North) Korean Workers\u2019 Party document under a title of \u2018Countermeasure Against Enemy\u2019s Evil Activities of Infiltration of the Bibles to Our Country via Balloons.\u2019 <\/p>\n
The document, which is suggested to be distributed by the Central KWP to the provincial party organization bureau and municipal party guidance bureau, is started with a phrase \u2018Here is the Party\u2019s decision, signed by the Dear Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il on June 30, 2004.\u2019 <\/p>\n
It is stated in the document that \u2018the enemies are planning to disseminate the Bibles to brainwash our people with religious idea by means of balloons.\u2019 Also, the document orders every party organization, as soon as it receives the document, to educate party members and workers about the text.<\/p>\n
According to the document, \u2018activities such as keeping the bible found in balloons or disseminating it are acts of treason,\u2019 and \u2018education of the people not to participate in treacherous activities is to be carried out aggressively.\u2019 <\/p>\n
The document proves North Korea\u2019s anti-religious policy that has been continued since Kim Il Sung\u2019s instruction of criticism on religion for being \u2018reactionary and unscientific one that paralyzes class consciousness.\u2019<\/p>\n
Moreover, the document articulates \u201cevery Party cell must do interim assessment on its activity follow our Great General (Kim Jong Il)\u2019s June 30 instruction against the enemy\u2019s vile plan to distribute small radios and July 17 instruction against the enemy\u2019s plot to disseminate religion to our country via balloons.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the third document containing anti-religious message from North Korea since Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League Central Committee\u2019s anti-religious education material reported by DailyNK last October, and the lecture document on \u2018fight against the enemy\u2019s plot to spread religion inside\u2019 released by Good Friends, a Buddhist human rights organization in Seoul, this April.<\/p>\n
Even though it is revealed through a series of such inside documents that North Korean regime is violating religious freedom, the country has been advertising its religious freedom to the outside. Last year when the Untied States pointed out North Korea\u2019s suppression of religion, Pyongyang promptly responded with a statement, criticizing rather the United States is the worst violator of religious freedom.<\/p>\n
Despite North Korea\u2019s harsh policy against religion, \u2018bible distribution movement\u2019 and \u2018radio distribution movement\u2019 by South Korean human rights organizations and missionaries are effective to some extent and North Korean regime seems on alert over those activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[imText1]North Korean authorities are nervous about South Korean missionaries sending the Bibles via balloons to the North. Recently, a South Korean missionary organization obtained a (North) Korean Workers\u2019 Party document under a title of \u2018Countermeasure Against Enemy\u2019s Evil Activities of Infiltration of the Bibles to Our Country via Balloons.\u2019 The document, which is suggested to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n