N Korean Christian tortured to death for having Bibles at home

Son Jung-hun, a younger brother of the victim, tells the story of the victim, who fled to China and then went home after he converted to Christianity.
07/07/2010
NORTH KOREA

Seoul (AsiaNews) – A North Korean Evangelical Christian was tortured and then killed in a Pyongyang’s prison. The victim’s brother pieced the story together and made it public. In a long interview, he slams the North Korean regime, calling it “hypocritical”, trying to be above any law, be it man-made or divine. Son Jung-hun, who now lives in South Korea, became a devout Christian after his brother Son Jong-nam was sentenced to death by the world’s last Stalinist regime.

Son Jong-nam was 50 when he died. Born in Pyongyang on 11 March 1958, he spent ten years in the presidential security service, discharged as a master sergeant in 1983. As a soldier, he had dedicated his life to fighting the “American imperialists”, but in 1997, his eight-month pregnant wife was arrested for allegedly saying Kim Jong-il had ruined the economy and caused mass famine. Usually, this is enough to get someone executed. the rest