North Korea's missionary position(the resurrection of Christianity)

TLR: excellent post and analysis.

Let's not forget, the 150-odd "religionists" are not purely poised in a defensive posture. Their status as "religionists" allows them to attend conferences in places like the United States and "represent!"

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"Careful, FS: I don't think TLR said anything about "re-unification with S. Korea" having anything to do with their siding with the US. ;)"

I meant I assumed that if the NK government fell that NK would reunify with SK and the combined country would be more pro-American. That's how I took the original comment.

"The collapse of Kim Jong-il's rule someday is likely to leave a serious ideological and spiritual vacuum, which can be easily filled by Christianity. "

And TLR wrote:

"When Kim Jong-il regime falls and N. Korea opens to the outside, it will surprise the world again by taking a totally unexpected path of change. It will flip from hard-core Stalinism to fervently Christian land again. Protestants, especially Evangelicals, will spread rapidly. Pyongyang will become again the Jerusalem of the East. The new N. Korea will be pro-American, despite years of brainwashing. Not decades later, but rapidly. Less than ten years or even less.

This would unfold in front of the dazed and dejected S. Korean left. While S. Korean left is in retreat, the new N. Korea may be more Christian and more pro-American than some S. Koreans would want to see them. "

Hmmm. It looks like TLR doesn't assume they'll re-unite. Why not?

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