Kim Jong Un

Trump, Pence speak at global forum held in South Korea

By Associated Press — February 14, 2022
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Several former leaders and top officials participated virtually or in-person at the weekend event in Seoul organized by the Unification Church,

N. Korean Christians keep faith underground amid crackdowns

By Hyung-Jin Kim — February 2, 2019
(AP) — “I wanted to build my church and sing out as loud as I could,” said one North Korean woman who later defected to South Korea.

The highs, lows and distractions of the Vatican synod on young people

By Thomas Reese — October 12, 2018
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — It is hard for a synod to compete with a cardinal's resignation, a defense of the pope against his attacker and an invitation from North Korea's dictator.

Seoul says Kim Jong Un wants pope to visit North Korea

By Kim Tong-Hyung — October 9, 2018
(AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants Pope Francis to visit the officially atheist country, South Korea said Tuesday.

For many South Korean Christians, reunification is a religious goal

By Diane Winston — June 11, 2018
Many Christian South Koreans see reunification of the Korean peninsula as a religious goal as much as a political one. And if reunification, as opposed to reconciliation, seems an uphill struggle, they believe that with faith anything is possible.

Two tearful faces that make me pray for peace with North Korea

By Richard Mouw — October 20, 2017
(RNS) — I despise Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader. But I offer up my prayers for peace regularly — prayers that are associated with the tears on two faces I saw while visiting a church in a village 10 hours north of Pyongyang.

Texas pastor: ‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-Un’

By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 8, 2017
(RNS) — The Rev. Robert Jeffress cheered the president's warning that North Korea would 'be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen' if it continues to threaten the United States.

Rodman ‘sorry,’ unable to aid imprisoned missionary

By Calum MacLeod — January 13, 2014
(RNS) At the end of his fourth trip to North Korea over the past 12 months, Rodman said, "I'm sorry that I couldn't do anything," when asked if had raised Christian missionary Kenneth Bae's case with leader Kim Jong Un.

Rodman apologizes for comments about missionary

By Calum MacLeod — January 9, 2014
BEIJING (RNS) Former NBA star Dennis Rodman apologized to the family of missionary Kenneth Bae for comments Tuesday in a CNN interview that appeared to blame Bae for being jailed inside North Korea.
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