When Kim Il-Sung, North Korea’s First Marxist Dictator, took power, he murdered numerous political rivals and groups. Chief among his targets were Christians. Prior to the Korean War, the northern part of the Korean peninsula had three times as many Christians as the south even though it only had half the population. At the time Pyongyang, which would become the capital of North Korea, was known as the “Jerusalem of the East”. Kim Il-Sung would say:
“We [could not] turn into a Communist society along with the religious people. Therefore, we purged the key leaders above the rank of deacons in Protestant or Catholic churches and the wicked among the rest were put on trial. The general religious people were... put into prison camps... We learned later that those of religion can do away with their old habits only after they have been killed.”
See The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism by Paul Kengor
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