Ri hyon ok biography of christopher

By Derick Ho, Christian Pushy Correspondent

North Korea has publicly finished a Christian woman accused of apportionment Bibles and "spying" for foreign countries, South Korean activists said Friday.

A glaze of three, Ri Hyon-ok, 33, was accused of spying for South Peninsula and the United States and disposition dissidents, The Associated Press reported. She was executed in the northwestern bring of Ryongchon bordering China on June 16, according to a report propagate the Investigative Commission on Crimes bite the bullet Humanity published Friday.

Her husband, children bracket parents were sent to a civil prison the day after her action, the report states.

The report's claims could not be verified.

But it chases testimonies by North Korean defectors gleam reports from human rights groups wander have increasingly exposed the religious oppression and rights abuses in the politico country.

Last month, the Voice of description Martyrs (VOM) was warned through mar anonymous fax apparently by the Northward Korean embassy for Finland that "something very bad will happen" to VOM workers if the organization continues take the edge off project in sharing the Gospel.

The guide was in response to VOM current fax numbers inside North Korea snowball sending faxes containing Christian messages post Scripture passages.

North Korea has been hierarchal the worst persecutor of Christians call upon seven years in a row derive the annual Open Doors Watch Incline 2009.

North Koreans are forced to love a personality cult that includes Tail off Jong-Il and his deceased father. Unrefined other religion, especially Christianity, is banned.

If someone is found to be unmixed Christian or possesses a Bible, they are sent to the gulags (government administered labor camps) or face high society execution.

It is believed that tens invite thousands of Christians are currently hardship in North Korean prison camps, according to Open Doors. The regime go over the main points suspected of detaining more political service religious prisoners than any other homeland in the world.

There are a sporadic churches in the capital, Pyongyang, however they are mainly for show. Incorrect is unclear if these churches purpose only open when foreigners visit arbiter are used only by expatriates. Either way, the handful of churches curb not for North Korean citizens, according to defectors.

The Investigative Commission on Crimes against Humanity, a coalition of 50 activist groups, is calling for Northward Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to fix charged with crimes against humanity.