Introduction An unreached people group is one where less than two percent of the population are Evangelical Christians. The Joshua Project defines an unreached people group as “a people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group without outside assistance.” The Koreans of North Korea are an example of an unreached people group. The North Korean people group is an interesting group because if it were not for them being one of the strictest governments in the world, the gospel may have already exploded in the area like it has in the same people group in South Korea. There are over sixteen million Korean Christians in South Korea compared to just …show more content…
The World Factbook on the CIA’s website shares some information on North Korea’s demographics. The country’s average age is 33.6 years old. There is a 0.94:1 ratio of males to females in North Korea.
Geographical Location and Population Distribution Koreans are located in forty-six different countries. Out of those forty-six countries, North Korea is one of only two countries where the Korean population is unreached. North Korea is in East Asia, within the 10/40 window. Most of the population, sixty percent, of North Korea lives in urban cities. The climate of North Korea has all four seasons. Occasionally typhoons will hit North Korea causing flooding and other damage. The Joshua Project says that there have been major food shortages caused by flooding in North Korea.
Language(s), Linguistic Characteristics, Literacy
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Unless there is a disaster such as flooding from typhoons, there is access to clean water in North Korea. However there are regular shortages of food. According to the book North Korea: A Country Study, in the 1990’s there was a severe famine that took place, claiming the lives of 300,000 to 800,000 people a year. Aid was sent in and there has been more stability in farming and food. However there is still a lot of need in this area. Food is still one of the country’s biggest needs. Tuberculosis is a common illness, often said to be caused by the famines. The government controls the media and communication. The internet is not accessible to people due to the communist control. Most of the issues in the country do not come from lack of accessibility like some people groups in remote areas, but they come from the centralized controlling communist government.
Economics
In North Korea: A Country Study, the economy of North Korea is, “Traditionally socialized, centrally planned, and primarily industrialized command economy isolated from rest of world.” The World Factbook says that the economy is 47% industry, 31%services, and 22%
Malnutrition is a massive problem in North Korea and on average, North Korean boys, age seven, are twenty pounds less in weight and eight inches shorter than their neighbors in South Korea. The lack of hospital quality and training for doctors causes an increased rate of illness and medical problems for North Koreans. This is why the team went to North Korea in the first place; to perform surgeries and train doctors. In addition to medical problems, nearly half of North Korea’s population of 25 million live in extreme poverty and are living very difficult
In North Korea life was incredibly different, and is still different, from life in America. The residents of North Korea live in extreme poverty, while Kim Jong Il and any member of Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea live as if they were kings; their meals filled with delicacies the citizens of North Korea can only dream of. Although it’s found strange to most in "normal" society, Kim Jong Il is revered as a God, because it is he who gave them all the “luxuries” in North Korea. When in actuality, he is the sole culprit of North Korea’s extreme poverty.
Climate, conflict, isolation, and corruption culminated in millions of lives lost, surely with no small amount of pain and suffering endured. Though international intervention can only help to the degree that authorities in North Korea will allow it, we are not left entirely without recourse. It is too late now to undo the damage of the North Korean famine, and although power has since changed hands, the country remains famously isolated. If, however, we tell the story as best we can, and deny ourselves the comfort of closing our eyes when faced with such a colossal tragedy, then perhaps in the future we find a solution. Silent are the Koreans who perished, and silent still are the authorities that chose seclusion over security. If we wish to prevent this from happening again, we must not let their silence be our silence as well.
In total, there have been approximately twenty-five prisons in North Korea. However as of 2011 the number of prison camps are officially five. They are: number 22 Hweryong, number 14 Kaechon, number 18 Pukchang, number 16 Hwasong, and number 25 Chongjin. No. 14 Kaechon has between 14,000~ 50,000 prisoners, no. 16 Hwasong has ~ 15,000 prisoners, no. 18 Pukchang has ~15,000-68,000 prisoners, no. 22 Hweryong has10,000~50,000 prisoners, and no. 25 Chongjin has 5,000~5,160 prisoners. These numbers vary due to past testimonies but could also less or more today (Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, "Prisoners in North Korea Today."). According to Soon Ok Lee, a survivor from the Kaechon prison camp, testified in court “there are 200,000 political prisoners in North Korea ("A Survivor: Soon Ok Lee," Msnbc.com.) However the number of prisoners according to the State Security Agency ranges around 130,500 people; numbers are hard to predict due t...
U.S, Department of State Website (2012) Background Note: North Korea. Retrieved on 20 May 2012 from: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.htm#profile
Firstly North Korea is one of the toughest, scariest places to live because of their dictatorship. In 1993 Kim ll - Sung died of a heart attack and his son Kim Jong-ll took power and set out on making the nation a member of “axis of evil”. Secondly the economy was collapsing and the great famine was taking place. During the famine those who were to young, to old, to poor, or to honest to steal or find food starved and inevitably died. Another reason is in North Korea going to jail is one of the worst things to ever happen. Prisoners are beaten severely. Punishments sometimes included breaking fingers, and to sit or stand in horrible, excruciating positions for a long period of time. Escaping North Korea is also a huge task that doesn't always end up well. The bodies of North Koreans can also be found floating in the rivers after a failed attempt at escaping, although some have successfully made it out. Some say that the Dust Bowl and living in poverty are the hardest but, the Dust Bowl only lasted for about 10 years or so, and living in poverty has many people working to find a long lasting solution. On the other hand nobody can really do anything about North Korea because it’s very secluded and it’s a huge threat to
North Korea is ruled by Kim Jong-Un a dictator who was born in Pyongyang, North Korea on January 8th, 1983. Kim Jong-Un is a controlling dictator who wants everyone to follow what he says. Kim Jong-Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, inherited his position from his father Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-Un has continued the country’s nuclear testing and the development of bomb technology,internationally it was disapproved. He has promised to focus on educational and economic improvement and is engaging in his approach to leadership.(Bio.com) Kim took over his father's position when his father passed away. Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack on December 17, 2011 at 8:30 in the morning while traveling to an area outside in North Korea. During
North Korea has absolute control over everything it's people see on a daily basis. If it’s the people somehow step out of line they punish them much like an abuser would by causing them physical, financial or even emotional damage. It is very similar to abuse victims in the sense that they don't know that they are being abused. Shin doesn't realize that there's more to life until he meets Park, at his prison camp job, and eventually escapes with him. One of the only ways that an abuse victim can get out of the situation safely is by telling people around them including the police, family members, friends and coworkers that they are being abused before they leave their abuser. This is also how Shin escaped the clutches of North Korea he told people in China that he was from North Korea and a refugee it eventually that led to him getting diplomatic immunity in China that would help him get to South Korea. This matters because his main motivation for writing this book was so that people would understand and try to stop North Korea and what it was doing to its own people and help get other people out of the situation that they were
..., South Korea’s economy ranked 15 in the world which is impressive for such a small country. Also, every couple of years, North and South Korea will both agree on a family reunion day in which they allow families who were broken up to meet each other for a day. It is very sad because they are only able to see each other for a day and are not able to know whether they will be able to see their family again. Korea still remains divided and does not show great signs of reunitement being possible.
As countries in today’s world are becoming more globalized, one country, North Korea, has stayed and moved in the complete opposite direction since it was divided in 1948. North Korea, described by many as a totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship, but is officially deemed as a “socialist republic” state, is one of five remaining communist states and one of only two remaining countries that have an almost entirely government planned, state-owned economy.
Since North Korea is a totalitarian state under the rule of mostly one man its
Few societies have changed as rapidly or as dramatically since the end of World War II as that of South Korea. When the war ended in 1945, the great majority of the people living in the southern ...
In the documentary that we watched, it talked about North Korea and the bad conditions and strict rules there. Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, barely allows anyone to leave or enter and when they do they take almost all their things away. For example, a surgeon and his camera crew went to North Korea to do some eye surgeries and when they got there, their phones and books were taken away. It is very secluded there and everyone has to at least pretend that they worship Kim Jong Un or they could get sent to a concentration camp along with their family. Kim Jong Un is literally a God to them and they think all the good things that happen there happen because of him.
North Korea is, for the 13th consecutive year, ranked as the number one most hostile country towards Christians and other religious groups. Kim Jong-Un, as well as the other dictators before and after him, are worshiped almost like if they were gods, so really any other religious groups are forbidden. North Korea describes itself as an atheist nation that practices traditional beliefs, which negates the right for religious
To understand this situation more fully, one must be given some background, starting in the early 1950s. Due to the harsh differences between the peoples of Korea, and especially due to the onset of Communism, the Korean War erupted and the nation split in half, with the Communist-supported Democratic People’s Republic in the north and those who favored democracy in the Korean Republic of the south (Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000). The two separate countries of North Korea and South Korea went their opposite ways, and each has experienced different fortunes in the past half-century. The South Koreans managed to recover from the turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s to become an economic power and a democracy supporter. On the other hand, North Korea can be viewed as a retro country, based first on a Communist ideology, laid down by leader Kim Il Sung and inherited by his son, the current dictator Kim Jong Il, then evolving into a totalitarian state (Pacific Rim: East Asia at the Dawn of a New Century). Today North Korea holds the distinction of being one of the very few remaining countries to be truly cut off from the rest of the world. Author Helie Lee describes this in her novel In the Absence of Sun: “An eerie fear crawled through my flesh as I stood on the Chinese side of the Yalu River, gazing across the murky water into one of the most closed-off and isolated countries in the world.” (1)