October 17 , 2006

Why North Korea Will Fall

When you walk into David Yonggi Cho’s mega-church in Seoul, South Korea, you’ll find what a 2003 Christian Science Monitor story describes as  “…artists' renderings of 12 different contemporary churches and prayer-meeting complexes - all labeled with North Korean addresses.

Above, a sign reads: "North Korean churches we must rebuild." Below each is the date they were first built - 1909, 1905, 1884 - and a description of where the original churches were established, usually by Methodist or Presbyterian missionaries.

Worshipers are urged to donate to one of the North Korean projects.”  The article quotes Assistant Pastor Ho-Youn Jun as saying “We will start with a church site in south Pyongyang (the North Korean capital). We pray about this strongly. Sometimes we pray all night."

Cho said, "We have been praying fervently for North Korea for many decades now, specifically praying for the peaceful unification of the two Koreas. We have many young pastors preparing for the ministry who are planning to enter North Korea when this door is open."

Then this past June there was a Global Week of Prayer for North Korea.  With all of this prayer going up for the liberation of North Korea, should we be surprised that the North Korean leadership is now doing inexplicably stupid things in the geo-strategic realm that are further isolating the country and hastening its collapse? What did you expect would happen?