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With thousands of Christians in North Korean labor camps for refusing to deny their faith, it is nothing short of puzzling that the officially atheist nation has ordered its 24 million citizens to spend three minutes on Dec. 29, 2011 praying for late dictator Kim Jong-il.
An official portrait of the late Kim Jong-il
Kim, 69, died of an apparent heart attack over the weekend. His was a brutal reign with reports of entire families being executed for the possession of a Bible in their home.
So, why would his successors call for three minutes of prayer at the end of his official mourning period?
posted December 20, 2011 at 6:24 pm
I would pray that he is rotting in hell like he deserves.
posted January 1, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Don’t worry Brandon, if there is a hell, he’s in it! As to the praying part—that would be the folks being told they WILL pray—but I expect that is pray TO the “dear leader”, not for him. After all, there is no god to pray to in N. Korea.