Both North Korean and South Korean athletes entered the opening ceremonies of the February 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy under the Korean Unification Flag. A New York Times headline on October 9th of that year announced that North Korea had conducted its first nuclear test becoming the eighth nuclear weapons state.
Today, after three decades of diplomacy, sanctions and warnings, South Korea announced that a North Korean delegation would be welcomed to the Olympics to be held in the South from February 9th to the 25th. Russia can't come...but Communist North Korea can. Barack Obama announced his 2008 run for the presidency on February 10th of 2007....Hillary Clinton announced on February 20th, and John McCain on February 28th. We had bigger fish to fry than a rogue nuclear state
Iran was an even more pressing problem in 2007. George W. Bush may very well have addressed that issue had not the big campaign for president been in full swing. We do remember McCain's "Bomb bomb bomb....bomb bomb Iran" do we not? I wrote this in a 2010 post..."We sat back and let our enemy North Korea get nuclear weapons.....would we sit back and let another enemy Iran get nuclear weapons? Well we did just that. We long ago made a Faustian pact but now there may be the devil to pay."
Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il was in power from October 1997 to December of 2011. His father Kim Il-Sung had led the new communist state since 1948. I wrote this of 'The Great Leader' in that same post.... "(He) was raised in a Presbyterian home and his maternal grandfather is said to have been a Presbyterian minister. He was once photographed warmly greeting Billy Graham and invited him twice to speak in North Korea! He died of a heart attack in 1994...the year of Reverend Graham's second visit. Billy's wife Ruth attended school in Pyongyang in the 1930s as her father was a missionary surgeon in China for 25 years...she visited North Korea in 1997. According to Reverend Graham, Kim Il Sung told him that his mother used to take him to church and tell him Bible stories. Communism destroyed North Korea and it destroyed this family also......the world has gone cold and dark. There is a cacophony of silence in this maddening world....almost as the calm that precedes the storm."
The heart goes out to the general populace of the North Korean people who are kept in the dark.....away from the light of Jesus Christ.....the Light of the World. The heart also goes out to the South Korean people who are no better off than we are in navigating a raging sea of social gospels and waves of crossless Christianity. To not recognize the downward spiral of humanity at this time is more than unfortunate for we cannot pray as we should. This is part of why the Trump ascendancy is meaningless. It does nothing more than support the crossless Christianity that inhibits our prayers....and it tightens the spiral of our demise by bolstering our own self-dependency.....away from humbling ourselves before our Creator....our only Sustainer.....and our Judge.
Today, after three decades of diplomacy, sanctions and warnings, South Korea announced that a North Korean delegation would be welcomed to the Olympics to be held in the South from February 9th to the 25th. Russia can't come...but Communist North Korea can. Barack Obama announced his 2008 run for the presidency on February 10th of 2007....Hillary Clinton announced on February 20th, and John McCain on February 28th. We had bigger fish to fry than a rogue nuclear state
Iran was an even more pressing problem in 2007. George W. Bush may very well have addressed that issue had not the big campaign for president been in full swing. We do remember McCain's "Bomb bomb bomb....bomb bomb Iran" do we not? I wrote this in a 2010 post..."We sat back and let our enemy North Korea get nuclear weapons.....would we sit back and let another enemy Iran get nuclear weapons? Well we did just that. We long ago made a Faustian pact but now there may be the devil to pay."
Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il was in power from October 1997 to December of 2011. His father Kim Il-Sung had led the new communist state since 1948. I wrote this of 'The Great Leader' in that same post.... "(He) was raised in a Presbyterian home and his maternal grandfather is said to have been a Presbyterian minister. He was once photographed warmly greeting Billy Graham and invited him twice to speak in North Korea! He died of a heart attack in 1994...the year of Reverend Graham's second visit. Billy's wife Ruth attended school in Pyongyang in the 1930s as her father was a missionary surgeon in China for 25 years...she visited North Korea in 1997. According to Reverend Graham, Kim Il Sung told him that his mother used to take him to church and tell him Bible stories. Communism destroyed North Korea and it destroyed this family also......the world has gone cold and dark. There is a cacophony of silence in this maddening world....almost as the calm that precedes the storm."
The heart goes out to the general populace of the North Korean people who are kept in the dark.....away from the light of Jesus Christ.....the Light of the World. The heart also goes out to the South Korean people who are no better off than we are in navigating a raging sea of social gospels and waves of crossless Christianity. To not recognize the downward spiral of humanity at this time is more than unfortunate for we cannot pray as we should. This is part of why the Trump ascendancy is meaningless. It does nothing more than support the crossless Christianity that inhibits our prayers....and it tightens the spiral of our demise by bolstering our own self-dependency.....away from humbling ourselves before our Creator....our only Sustainer.....and our Judge.
