Korea

Love in the time of sanctions

scjoshrussell August 19, 2016 0

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea) is probably one of the most mysterious and least visited places in the world for North Americans. Even for many U.S. policymakers, DPRK is often seen through a political cloud of fear and presented as an unknowable and unpredictable enemy. For the U.S. government, the label of…

Prayer for the Korean peninsula

kirstindemellomccorg May 3, 2013 0

God who knows all history, hear our prayer; For an identity shaped by the shame of occupation, hear our prayer; For a land still cringing from the rape of a war waged more than six decades ago, hear our prayer; For bodies that toiled to rebuild and recover, hear our prayer; For the painful separation…