01/16/2021 North Korea (International Christian Concern) – Despite being the most dangerous country for Christians to live in, North Korea still has tens of thousands Christians (though...
06/08/2020 North Korea (International Christian Concern) – North Korea’s de facto leader of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, Kim Yo-Jong, better known as its leader Kim...
By ICC’s Representative for North Korea China has been cracking down on the Church with a “Sinicization” campaign. President Xi seeks to place religion under the Party’s control. ICC’s...
08/10/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Radio Free Asia reports that China has detained about 60 North Korean defectors and begun repatriating them back to North Korea...
02/10/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – China’s crackdown on Christianity is not just toward Chinese Christians, the North Korean defectors who live in the northeast of...
02/05/2019 North Korea (International Christian Concern) – In order to keep their faith, North Korean Christians have to pray or sing hymns in secret, so as to not be seen by the...
ICC Note: A North Korean family preparing to escape to South Korea as inter-Korean bilateral ties improve were arrested and would be punished severely. Attempting to defect and calling...
ICC Note: North Korean Human rights and defector groups are struggling financially given the warming ties between the two Koreas. The Moon administration in South Korea has been taking...
ICC Note: Despite seemingly warming relations between the two Koreas, the North Korean defectors in the South continue their work of sending rice and facts-loaded USB sticks to the...
04/13/2018 North Korea (Channel News Asia) – Most North Koreans who break out do so by crossing the river border. Meet some of those who made it to Seoul: Song Byeok lost his father in...
ICC Note: At a Working Group on North Korean Women event in New York, North Korean female defectors shared that women are often under the threat of rape, with many rape victims not even...
ICC Note: As winter causes rivers separating North Korea and South Korea to freeze, many young North Koreans are asking their parents for money they can use to cross the border to...
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