China bureau chief and former Korea bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal and author of “Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult” (Knopf 2026) – is the ...
Q&A with Jonathan Cheng on how the Christian gospel can be twisted for political aims. What did the emergence of evangelical Christianity look like in North Korea and in the Kim family? When Kim ...
Somang Prison, the only private and Christian-run penitentiary in Asia, seeks to treat inmates with dignity—and it sees results. At 13, Cho felt his life split in two. His family moved from South ...
April 10 (Asia Today) --A South Korean Christian group called for an end to political entanglement with religion ahead of upcoming local elections, warning such practices could undermine the church.
A new history by Jonathan Cheng argues that an influx of missionaries in the late 19th century profoundly shaped the ruling Kim family dynasty. By Bruce Cumings Bruce Cumings is a professor emeritus ...