With one member of the Axis of Evil (Iraq) recently taken out of the axis, with another member (Iran) hurtling toward a resolution of some kind, what’s up with the third member (North Korea)?
It seems that Kim Jong-il’s worker’s paradise is dissolving around him.
While tour guides continue to give tours explaining the virtues of North Korean Communism, the secret police have started stockpiling cash in advance of coming disasters, there are (literal!) shootouts among members of the ruling family, and the Christian underground is smuggling increased numbers of North Koreans to safety.
Change is in the (bitterly cold North Korean) wind.
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Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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We pray to the Lord!
From the Times story:
The dictator’s favoured heir apparent, his son Kim Jong-chol, 23, who was educated in Geneva…
I wonder, is there anyone out there trying to evangelize and convert these foreign-educated sons of megalomaniacal dictators while they are at university?
Seems like it might be an idea.
A tourist was detained for several days because she asked why Kim was the only fat man in the country.
It may not be easy.
The sadness of it all is more bitter than the coldness of the chill winds.
I’m afraid Kim will go out in a blaze of atomic fire.