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North Korean Christian woman tells what happened to Christians in North Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfeY6bVQ1nA

#ExtremelyRareDPRKvideos #NorthKorean #christianwoman A member of the congregation at Bongsu Church in Pyongyang speaking about her experience during the US ...

A member of the congregation at Bongsu Church in Pyongyang speaking about her experience during the US carpet bombing of the DPRK and its impact on her life as a Christian from Dai Sil Kim-Gibson’s “People Are the Sky” (2014).

"After we were liberated, when the Japanese were defeated, what I remember is that all the Japanese went home. Because after we were liberated, the People's government was established. A lot of churches were born freely. After that we lived in peace. We were able to live in peace for the next 5 years. [Until the war broke out.] I believe those 5 years were our golden age. We attended church every week after school."

"But soon there was no church left because of the heavy bombing. Even during the worship service, the bombing killed a lot of people. When I think of that time, even now tears gather in my eyes. So many of my friends died. Then we heard that the US was planning to drop the atomic bomb. We were threatened that we would all die and must go south. Because of that threat, a lot of my people headed south. Americans shot these people and killed them. So they killed, largely by bombing but also by shooting. They bombed us even during worship service. No churches were left in Pyongyang! Before the war, we thought Americans were angels from God, but after the war, we hated them."

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AnarchoBolshevik

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Thank you for sharing this. Periodically the capitalist press likes to publish rumors of Pyongyang massacring or imprisoning innocents just for being Christian, and the repetition of these stories easily drowns out the verifiable history that we have of anticommunists actually committing these (albeit more for the victims being N. Korean than for being Christian). It’s similar to anticommunists’ very repetitive mentioning of famines or malnourishment in the people’s republics, which (perhaps intentionally) overshadows the confirmed cases of anticommunists doing exactly that to us.

Although this particular clip did not discuss it in detail, it was nice to see somebody reference the Imperial occupation of Korea too. I know that it’s basic history, but it’s shocking in retrospect how I didn’t learn about it until 2018. Personally, I’ve been alive for twenty‐eight years now and (aside from maybe one possible exception) I’ve still never seen an anticommunist mention it even in passing.

afellowkid

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Thanks for your response. Yes, I felt it was worth sharing, for the reasons you stated here. I thought it might be a good video to have on hand for debunking purposes or if someone wanted to include the clip in a video, etc.

Thanks for linking that informative quote, although it's an awful thing to contemplate. Recently I was trying to write something regarding tactics like that, about starving people on purpose. I got too sick from researching it and had to put aside what I was writing. And of course, the US uses this disgusting tactic all the time to various degrees via sanctions; even when they themselves don't induce a famine but one happens anyway, they gleefully regard it as an opportunity to go in for the kill and to do everything they can to worsen and prolong the famine conditions, and then blame the victims.

On a somewhat related note, if you want information about a case of the US accidentally inducing near-famine conditions in south Korea thanks to forcibly introducing free market policies in place of a budding people-led economy, you can read this: A Policy of Amateurism: The Rice Policy of the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea, 1945-1948

I know that it’s basic history, but it’s shocking in retrospect how I didn’t learn about it until 2018.

I also didn't learn much about that until later in life. Amazing how major elements of history are just completely skipped over with things like this in education systems, media coverage, etc., although of course it's skipped for a reason. The less context people have for why anything in the present day is how it is, the "better".