The situation for Christians in North Korea was highlighted recently by a panel that spoke before the debut of the documentary Humanity Denied: Religious Freedom in North Korea held just down the road from the State Department’s summit on religious freedom Thursday.
Olivia Enos, an expert on Asia at the Heritage Foundation, and Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary who frequented North Korea and was imprisoned by the regime for 2 years, told an audience at the Senate Dirksen building that North Korea lives up to its reputation as the number 1 persecutor of Christians and other people of faith by all estimates.
"The situation in North Korea is absolutely dire," Enos said, pointing to a 2014 UN report that documented cases of North Koreans who had escaped to China but were later apprehended by North Korean authorities, who promptly asked them two things: Whether they had had contact with South...
