Christianity in North Korea is growing rapidly, a Parliamentary expert who fled the brutal regime has told en in an exclusive interview.
Timothy Cho is the Inquiry Clerk to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea and an expert on the underground church there. Now 33, he escaped from North Korea aged 17.
Speaking to en, he related what life is like there now. One of the reasons that people are going hungry is North Korea’s enormous expenditure on arms, he says. With each nuclear missile costing $US 800million, cutting those tests and launches would free up huge sums to spend on food.