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Aug 12, 2013 - 12:36AM

Prayers for Kenneth Bae

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In your prayers for the persecuted church, please include this dear brother in Christ. He's recently lost 50 lbs., has diabetes & an enlarged heart.

Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:15am EDT

An American Christian missionary imprisoned in North Korea is in deteriorating health and has been moved from a prison work camp to a hospital within the past two weeks, his sister said at a vigil for her brother on Saturday.

Kenneth Bae was sentenced in May to 15 years of hard labor after North Korea's Supreme Court convicted him of state subversion. The court said Bae, 45, had used his tourism business to form groups to overthrow the government.

Bae was detained in November as he led a tour group through the northern region of the country. His sentencing came amid acrimonious relations between Pyongyang and Washington over the reclusive state's nuclear program.

Bae's sister Terri Chung said that her brother had until recently been held at a prison for foreigners and put to work plowing and planting fields.

However, he is suffering from a range of health problems including an enlarged heart and chronic diabetes as well as back and leg pain, necessitating his transfer to a state hospital, she said...

American jailed in North Korea hospitalized, sister says

For those interested, Bae's son has created a web page & there's a link to sign an online petition for his release:

http://freekennow.com/

Valerie

Aug 12, 2013 - 12:48AM

Re: Prayers for Kenneth Bae

Thanks Dale,

I will keep and remember this dear Christian Brother in my prayers daily.

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy on Kenneth, in Jesus name I pray! Amen.

Many of our Christian Brothers & Sisters are suffering all over the world, please remember to keep them in your prayers.

I will put this up as a sticky to remind others here as well.

Maranatha!

Valerie

Aug 12th, 2013 - 12:48 AM

Dale

Aug 12, 2013 - 1:10AM

Re: Prayers for Kenneth Bae

Thank you so much, Valerie, for your concern & your prayers!♥

Other news articles reported his vision has been compromised, too, probably due to lack of care for his diabetes.

No doubt the NK government waited until the last minute to hospitalize him, & only did it as a last resort. I pray it is not too late & that our Lord Jesus Christ will heal him & free him from these vicious oppressors!

Texas Sue

Aug 12, 2013 - 5:17PM

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North Korea is a very dark place and is ruled over by strong occult forces. Christians there are killed in rituals so that the blood shed empowers satanic hold over the country. I found this information in another place where victims of SRA-DID, who have become Christians and are recovering from the hold of their controllers witnessed these events and told what is happening there.

Pray not only for this dear Christian brother but for angelic power from heaven to break through and knock out this satanic power base from the whole country so that God's light and love can pour in to all these poor souls in captivity.

Aug 12th, 2013 - 5:17 PM

Dale

Aug 28, 2013 - 2:18AM

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Amen, Texas Sue! North Korea really dug in their heels by demanding changes be made to U.S. policy in exchange for his release. But, praise God, it looks like our prayers are being answered, based on this encouraging report today:

The United States is sending a senior envoy to North Korea to seek the release of an ailing Korean-American sentenced to 15 years hard labor, the State Department said.

Kenneth Bae was tried at a time of high tension between the United States and North Korea over the reclusive nation's nuclear program, on charges that he was trying to topple the regime of young leader Kim Jong-Un.

Despite earlier US goodwill trips that led to convictions being overturned, the North has staunchly denied that the hefty jail sentence was crafted as a diplomatic bargaining chip, and indicated that it wanted policy changes, not diplomacy, from Washington to secure Bae's freedom.

Pyongyang also said it would not invite any leading American to discuss the release of Bae, who is 44, but Ambassador Robert King's August 30 visit appears to be a reversal of that strategy.

A State Department statement said King, the US Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, would travel to Pyongyang "at the invitation of the DPRK government" on a humanitarian mission "focused on securing the release of US citizen Kenneth Bae."

Bae, a tour operator whose Korean name is Pae Jun-Ho, was arrested in November 2012 as he entered the hardline communist state's northeastern port city of Rason.

North Korea, which strictly bans religious proselytizing, said Bae was a Christian evangelist who brought in "inflammatory" material.

The State Department and Bae's sister have said the Korean-American, whose sentence included long days of farm work, was recently transferred to a hospital due to deteriorating health.

"Ambassador King will request the DPRK pardon Mr. Bae and grant him special amnesty on humanitarian grounds so that he can be reunited with his family and seek medical treatment," the State Department said Tuesday.

The White House also released a statement on King's upcoming trip, urging "the government of North Korea to grant special clemency to Mr. Bae immediately and allow him to return home" with the US envoy.

US sends envoy to N. Korea to seek citizen's release