North Korea (MNN) — North Korea is using dirty tactics to poke at South Korea — literally, filthy.
This week, North Korea launched over 200 balloons into South Korea filled with trash, manure, and even human waste.
North Korea says it dispatched the polluted balloons in response to leaflet campaigns. Because the hermit nation prevents its citizens from having practically any contact with the outside world, private South Korean citizens and groups sometimes send leaflets by balloon into North Korea with humanitarian aid, encouraging messages, and Bibles.
(Photo courtesy of The Voice of the Martyrs USA)
Eric Foley with The Voice of the Martyrs Korea (VOM) explains, “The South Korean government actually doesn’t send fliers to North Korea. Instead, individual private citizens and civic groups send fliers, Bibles, or other materials.
“So North Korea, when they engaged in this act, said that they wanted to make sure the South Korean people could experience and feel what it’s like to receive these things.”
Essentially, North Korea says receiving balloons filled with things like Scripture is the same as being rained on by dung.
If only they knew the true beauty in God’s Word! That’s why VOM Korea won’t stop getting the Bible to North Koreans by any means necessary.
“We always refrain from making comments about what we are or aren’t doing in regard to specific field activities,” says Foley. “But what we do say is this: We continue to look for every opportunity — by land, sea, air, or radio…. We look for every opportunity to bring the Bible into North Korea.
“Every year, by the grace of God, we’re bringing in an average of 40,000 Bibles through all those different means.”
Pray for open Gospel doors into North Korea.
Header photo courtesy of The Voice of the Martyrs.
