North Korean Defectors are being SILENCED in the name of peace, and it’s not OK.

“When the Eagles are silent, the Parrots begin to chatter.”

– Winston Churchill

We encourage our readers of all ages to pray for ONE FREE KOREA, HANA.

It is our mission to empower people of all ages to NOT remain silent concerning the human rights violations taking place in North Korea.

There are CHILDREN who are born, grow up and die in prison camps.

And even those citizens who are not in a physical prison, remain imprisoned by fear. Not just of their own lives, but the lives of every person they love.

This may not be a popular topic, it may not be comfortable, it may even cause you to have some enemies, but if we do not stand for the silenced North Korean people who will?

Back of book: HANA Crosses The Freedom Bridge

We support the mission of the Voice of the Martyrs in South Korea, VOM. For many years they have been using balloons to send messages of hope, truth and freedom across the DMZ, into the dark and fear filled nation of North Korea. Their acts of faith and courage are what inspired our HANA-OneFreeKorea books.

In a recent letter to their donors, they encouraged Christians to “do God’s work today and not wait for a “better ” tomorrow.”

Many North Korean defectors, who now live in South Korea, come to be trained by the ministry of VOM, on how they can help their fellow North Koreans TODAY, and not just wait around for a “better tomorrow” when the country is reunified.

In their recent letter to us, the VOM informed us of a disturbing letter which was sent to them from the Ministry of Unification of South Korea.

The letters states:

” Now is a very sensitive time in the political process toward national unification as we meet in summits with North Korea.
Your work fouls the air for peace.
Please wait until later to do your work so that you do not disturb the peace process. Then in the future we can invite you to travel to North Korea with other South Korean religious groups to participate in government sponsored religion and culture sharing events.”

This letter is disturbing for two main reasons:

First, a free country is telling a religious group of North Korean defectors to silence their voices.

Second, a free country is telling this Christian group they will control their voices when the two countries are reunified.

In an interview with Fox News, Todd Nettleton, Chief of Media Relations and Message Integration for the Voice of the Martyrs USA, reports that:

“The regime punishes the families of anyone who defects at the time of their defection… If they were to comment publicly and further embarrass the regime, they know their families would be punished further, possibly even executed or sent to a labor camp.”
Punishment often extends for up to three generations after the defection.

The NK Defectors who have been brave enough to escape the dark and fearful land of North Korea, already know what’s at stake. They have already lost their friends, and their family. They already have gone through the torture of knowing that their freedom comes with the price of 3 generations of their family being imprisoned or killed. They have already lived an entire lifetime of fear, of silence. A lifetime controlled by the whims of the Kim regime.

They didn’t risk EVERYTHING to continue to be manipulated, controlled, and silenced by Kim Jong Un. So to silence them now? To tell them that being unoffensive is more important than spreading truth?

They have already heard this story. They have already believed this lie. They have already been silenced by this egotistical dictator. They just thought they escaped from it all when they defected from the “The Place Where Dreams Die”, and gave up everything and everyone to come to “The Place Where Dreams Live”.

And yet, even the request for their silence is like watching the dark manipulative arms of Kim Jong Un, reach across the border to strangle their well fought for dream of freedom.

In our book, HANA Crosses the Freedom Bridge – a story of how Korea becomes ONE, it is the people {children} that bring about a FREE unified Korea. Not the governments.

It is a story that represents how the prayers, dreams and seeds of truth, sent over from South Korea, can take root and grow in North Korea. It depicts how that dream becomes alive and spreads with the light of truth and love in the hearts of the North Korean people. It shows the power of the people, the power of God, and the power of PERFECT LOVE being able to cast out all fear!

Of course, the story that happens in our book is nothing short of a miracle, to have one person be a catalyst for the two Korea’s to become one, but then again, that is exactly what happened with East and West Germany. It wasn’t the governments that initiated the merger, it was the people themselves.

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After 28 years of isolation from the rest of the world, the people East Germany began to have a change of heart and thinking, In part because of the economic downturn they faced, and also largely because of the radio messages that were sent through the air waves from West Germany to East Germany, that the East German Regime tried to silence.

At that point, the people just had to wait for the perfect storm… they had to wait for their Miracle. In November of 1989, their miracle happened.

And according to Mary Elise Sarotte at Johns Hopkins University, the Berlin Wall

“would not have opened when and how it did without the last-minute decisions of a secret police officer named Harald Jäger. Struggling with the fear that he was dying of cancer, and angry over insults from higher-ups, he disobeyed direct orders and started letting East Germans through the gate.”

Do not underestimate the power of the suppressed North Korean people. Do not underestimate the POWER of the messages sent to North Korea from its defectors. For THEY are the ones who are changing the hearts of the North Korean people, not the control and fear from the Kim Regime.

Do not silence the story of truth, or else the story of lies is the only story that will be told.

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to chatter.” – Winston Churchill

We encourage all of you to pray for ONE FREE KOREA, and for people all over the world to not remain silent and not to silence the voices of North Korean defectors. May we all ” foul ” the world’s air with the voice of TRUTH and not remain silent concerning human rights violations or the truth of Jesus our redeemer.