Kim Jong Un BANS Christmas, Christians Respond In BIG Way

North Korea, under the leadership of dictator Kim Jong Un, has banned Christmas celebrations in the Hermit Kingdom for several decades, but that hasn’t stopped Christians from trying to spread the message of Christ Jesus’ birth.

North Korean Freedom Coalition has started Operation Truth, which consists of launching flash drives into the Yellow Sea that contain Bible verses that share the story of Christ’s birth and the entire Bible.

Besides Bible verses, the sealed floating device contains “enough rice to feed a family of four for a week and a U.S. $1 bill.”

Kim Jong Un bans Christmas but US activists send Bibles and food to North Korean shores https://t.co/H9fiUzEcsQ pic.twitter.com/Vc56UxbE8w

— New York Post (@nypost) December 24, 2023

Per Fox News:

Christmas is banned in North Korea, but that is not stopping a group of activists from sending messages of hope, faith and freedom to the people suffering under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un.

Flash drives celebrating the holiday, and including Bible readings, were launched into the Yellow Sea in bottles so that the currents will carry them to the shores of the North Korean peninsula.”We should be doing everything we can to get information into North Korea by land, by sea and by air,” says Suzanne Scholte, chair of the Washington, D.C.-based North Korean Freedom Coalition which sponsored the messages.

The operation is part of the group’s “Operation Truth,” which Scholte says, “is modeled after the Berlin Airlift, to get critical help to the starving people of North Korea.”

The group has conducted 17 launches of the bottles. Each bottle also contains enough rice to feed a family of four for a week, as well as a Bible on a flash drive and a U.S. $1 bill.  Among those launching the messages were nine North Korean escapees who want to bring freedom to their homeland.

Kim Jong UN bans Christmas, but activists send gifts of Bibles, food and messages of hope https://t.co/7mvzUdlnMs

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 24, 2023

The New York Post got the scoop too:

The Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but Kim Jong Un has outright banned it.

The North Korean dictator’s brutal restrictions on religion, however, haven’t stopped some activists from trying to spread the holiday spirit — by tossing presents into the Yellow Sea hoping they will wash up on the hermit kingdom’s shores.

Activists with the human rights group North Korea Freedom Coalition recently threw bottles filled with rice, a $1 US bill and a flash drive with Bible verses each, hoping to bring Christmas cheer to Pyongyang’s impoverished citizens.

“We should be doing everything we can to get information into North Korea by land, by sea, and by air,” Suzanne Scholte, who helms the organization told Fox News.

“We must communicate to the people in power in Pyongyang that they have friends and allies in Korea and America, who have only one desire for them: to share with the benefits of a free people, to give them a life of home instead of despair,” she added.

Kim Jong UN bans Christmas, but activists send gifts of Bibles, food and messages of hope https://t.co/sfZM34bwmO #FoxNews

— Frank Turek (@DrFrankTurek) December 24, 2023