Cross is prohibited in North Korea
In recent months pressure on Christians in North Korea has been enhanced. Civil servants confiscate things with cross-shaped pictures at customs and shops. It is reported by the Siberian Catholic newspaper.
“When customs officials confiscate these items saying they look like crosses we have nowhere to go to complain about it,” told one of the traders from Hamgyeongbuk-do province.
According to the reports, coming from the country where it is difficult to obtain unofficial information, even schoolchildren are advised to cautiously write «+» sign when doing mathematical calculations so that it would not be reminiscent of the cross sign.
Nearly 70 thousand Christians are believed to have been put in concentration camps because of their faith. Those who have preserved their faith are at risk of becoming torture and atrocity victims – from imprisonment to capital punishment. At the same time freedom of religion is officially declared in the KPDR. Throughout the country of 24-million population only two Christian churches function in the capital.
It will be reminded the Kim dynasty retain the power in the KPDR – descendants of the Korean communists’ leader Kim Ir Sen who created the totalitarian cult of his personality. Atheist regime, widely used and promoted by terror, largely adds to the confidence in transhumant capabilities of “chiefs”. After his death in 1994 Kim Ir Sen was announced as an “eternal president”. All Koreans in the KPDR are obliged to wear badges with his portrait.
