North Korea’s a pretty isolated place, but there are still quite a few things we know. Try these:
1. How big is the North Korean army?
2. How many Koreans have risked imprisonment and death by fleeing from this Communist “Paradise” ?
3. What percent of North Korea is mountainous?
4. What percent of NK’s 18,000 miles of roads is paved?
5. What religion dominated the land before Christianity/atheism?
6. How long has Kim Jong Il reigned?
7. Is there any prosperity in North Korea?
8. What was Korea’s name before it was called Korea?
9. Just how far back does Korean history go?
10. What is Korea’s most famous food?
Answers:
1. Perhaps one million? It is the 4th or 5th largest in the world. It is the reason Korea can continue to wreak havoc on its people. It is the reason for the widespread starvation. It is the reason the man in the middle can turn an angry face to the West and spurn the world’s warnings. Let us pray for the Lord of armies to do what only He is able to do…
2. Upwards to 50,000 are now living in Northeast China. Many others have fled to South Korea, Mongolia, other parts of China, even the United States.
3. 80. A truly rugged land.
4. 10
5. Buddhism (later overtaken by “non-religion” Confucianism)
6. Too long. Since 1994. But the Lord of all Lords knows what is going on and will rise up…
7. Yes. Obviously the government and the military show the world a face of fatness. The farther a visitor is able to travel from Pyongyang, the more the tragedy of North Korea is revealed. 8. For one thousand years prior to this era it was known as “Choson”, the land of “morning calm.” 9. Up to 5,000 years, but much of that is blended in with mythology. Fabled figure “Tangun” was said to have set up Korea’s first dynasty sometime between Noah’s flood and the days of Abraham. (2333 B.C.)
10. Kimchi. Spicy cabbage. Very hot.
Loving our neighbors involves knowing them. Please continue to pray for these descendants of the morning calm who long for the calm of morning to dawn on them. Oh may Christ be once more lifted up in this land!