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Thirty-three North Koreans face execution after being charged with attempting to overthrow the repressive regime of Kim Jong-un. There crime is their faith, Christianity. These North Korean Christians have been accused of attempting to set up 500 underground churches, and somehow this is a threat to North Korean dictator.

It has emerged that they had worked with South Korean Baptist missionary Kim Jung-Wook who was arrested in October. The missionary told reporters that he was arrested in early October after entering the North from China and trying to make his way to Pyongyang with Bibles, Christian instructional materials and movies.

In a televised confession from Kim Jung-Wook earlier this week, the missionary said:

    “I was thinking of turning North Korea into a religious country, and destroying its present government and political system,” he said at the time.

    “I received money from the intelligence services and followed instructions from them, and arranged North Koreans to act as their spies. And I also set up an underground church in China, in Dandong, and got the members to talk and write, for me to collect details about the reality of life in North Korea, and I provided this to the intelligence services.”

A South Korean intelligence agency in China has disputed this, saying that the missionary did not enter North Korea voluntarily, but was kidnapped by agents of the Pyongyang government in China.

While Kim Jung-wook gave this confession, the North Korean officials showed a video of the 33 Christians that are now being accused of overthrowing the government.

This confession was blatantly coerced, and to prevent an international incident, Kim Jung-wook, a South Korean, is not facing the death penalty. But the 33 Christians that are from North Korea are.

Execution seems a harsh penalty in today’s world for being a Christian. Somehow, someway we have to stop this atrocity from occurring. But this comes for the man that executed his own uncle, pray is needed, we will need God to intervene, or we will have another 33 Christian martyrs.