Draft:Caleb Mission
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Comment: Sources are mostly focused on Kim Sungeun, with only passing mentions of Caleb Mission. Suggest merging or redirecting into that article. Greenman (talk) 16:37, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Caleb Mission(갈렙선교회) is a Christian missionary organization founded by Pastor Seungeun Kim[1] in South Korea to rescue North Korean defectors.[2]
Caleb Mission has helped rescue more than 1,000 North Korean defectors since 2000.[3]
The 2023 documentary film Beyond Utopia is centered on Caleb Mission and Pastor Seungeun Kim’s North Korean defectors' rescue operations.[4]
History[edit]
In the late 1990s, Seungeun Kim was serving a church in China.[5] In January 2000, while visiting China's border with North Korea, Seungeun Kim was struck by a group of malnourished children he saw.[5] Kim decided to devote his life to helping North Koreans.[5] Not long after, a North Korean defector, Esther Park, came to his church.[5] Kim and Park, a former North Korean army lieutenant,[6] soon began a relationship.[5] As a North Korean defector, Park was unsafe in China, and Kim was able to transport her to South Korea by plane.[5]
Park and Kim later married, and together they founded Caleb Mission.[5] Park studied theology in South Korea and was ordained as a pastor.
In 2010, Caleb Mission gained attention online after posting videos filmed in and documents from North Korea, including a North Korean military manual from 2005.[6]
Programs[edit]
Caleb Mission also help defectors become self-reliant through their North Korean Defectors' Community Center in Cheonan, South Korea.
References[edit]
- ^ Choi, Jung-yoon; Times, Los Angeles (2012-08-07). "South Korean pastor devotes his life to defectors". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ Wintour, Patrick (2023-10-23). "Escape from tyranny: the gentle pastor who smuggles North Koreans to freedom". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ Toosi, Nahal (2023-07-07). "Outwitting the North Korean regime". POLITICO. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Pavia, Will (2023-12-02). "How the Oskar Schindler of North Korea helped 1,000 people escape". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g Blanco, Patricia R. (2023-07-31). "Seungeum Kim, the reverend who crosses 'jungles and rivers' to help North Korean 'defectors' flee". EL PAÍS English. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ a b "Small S. Korean Church Strives to Expose North's Secrets". Voice of America. September 19, 2010. Retrieved December 2, 2023.