North Korea 'executes Christians'

[Akvod]

Kasz216 said:

Akvod said:
It's fascinating how Christianity became so successful in Korea (to the point that Asian religions like Buddhism has been persecuted in South Korea).

I don't understand how it managed to get to North Korea though... I wonder what methods South Korea used to get so many converts.

I can see why North Korean officials are so afraid and upset about Christianity though, since it's not only connected to the US, but also South Korea, and how they want to maintain the people's belief that their leader is some divine figure.

Fucked up world =/ And I enjoy the comfort of only reading about these things online then see them first hand. I wonder if people in first world nations are only getting soft, or if people in these horrible places are having their minds broken by the world's horrors.

Christianity is just an inherently successful religion for some reason.  There are a lot of countries where christanity was riding a huge wave of covnersion before it was shut down by the government.

Like Japan, China, etc.

I know how Japan, like in the 1700-1800's banned Christianity (stomp on a picture of Christ and all), but I don't think the government... especially when America was occupying Japan and was trying to Americanize it after WWII, shut down Christianity... again that's why I thought it was fascinating that despite the failure in Japan (no, Western weddings and Christmas doesn't count as Christianity making leaps into Japan), it succeeded in South Korea.