Inside North Korea Rare Photos

Journalist Photo Memoirs of North Korea

Rick Wood, a photo journalist with the Milwaukee Sentinel, visited North Korea in 1997 with a team from Worldwide Leadership Council. Jim Groen, President of WLC and former President of Youth for Christ International, was permitted by the government of North Korea, and under our State Department to visit North Korea. Enjoy the rare photos of the nation and people of North Korea, a hard-working people. Only 1out of 350 people have ever been allowed inside North Korea.

Ruth Graham's Ministry in North Korea

North Korean and American flags were handed out to the people in the streets. Later, the team visited the school and church where the late Rev. Billy Graham's wife, Mrs. Ruth Bell Graham, attended school in North Korea.  Her mother and father had been medical missionaries in China with the China Inland Mission. Dr. and Mrs. Bell, had sent their daughter Ruth to North Korea to a missionary boarding school. There are still elderly members of that church and school in North Korea, in their 80's and 90's now. They all got on their knees, prayed, and sang "How Great Thou Art" together on Easter Sunday 1997. Read more on The Graham Family Legacy in North Korea.

Rick will never forget the people or the missionary good fruit planted in the 1800's in China, Korea, Japan, Viet Nam, Thailand, the entire Asian area with China Inland Mission, Queen Victoria, the Salvation Army from London, and Hudson Taylor, C.T. Studd, Eric Liddell, the Flying Scotsman, all with CIM.  Enjoy the pictures of his trip of rare photos never seen before. In North Korea, evangelism is not permitted and the team was watched carefully by the government. All felt the presence of the Holy Spirit when the remnant and their group sang together that Easter morning over 20 years ago.

Talks in Singapore begin Monday, June 11, 2018, a historic global event ready to unfold. Pray the meetings go well between President Trump and the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. May the prayers of saints around the world be answered for peace in that region of the globe. God bless you, and have a blessed Lord's Day, Sabbath and Sunday morning. Listen to the Korean Festival Symphony perform "How Great Thou Art."