Anonymous ID: fb6dc8 April 6, 2018, 1:37 p.m. No.923742   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3774 >>3876

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https:// www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/21/how-billy-graham-took-his-crusade-to-north-korea/?utm_term=.1d04ed021192

https:// billygraham.org/story/the-graham-family-legacy-in-north-korea/

https:// www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/asia/billy-graham-asia-north-korea-intl/index.html

www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article201821254.html

www.scmp.com/news/asia/diplomacy/article/2134236/north-korea-how-preacher-billy-graham-opened-door-america-hermit

https:// video.foxnews.com/v/1348279977001/?#sp=show-clips

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Anonymous ID: fb6dc8 April 6, 2018, 2:02 p.m. No.924169   🗄️.is đź”—kun

That Graham went to North Korea at all was somewhat surprising. He was a staunch anti-communist and a famous religious leader.

North Korea was not only officially communist but also atheist, discouraging religion and persecuting Christians.

But Graham had already made a name travelling to other communist nations in visits he dubbed “crusades,” and evangelicals had long considered Korea a vital place for the growth of Christianity in Asia.

Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, had once been dubbed the “Jerusalem of the East”, and Graham’s wife spent three years there at a missionary school in the 1930s.

 

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By 1994, the Clinton administration was seriously considering war. Graham returned to Pyongyang that year, this time with a new urgency.

His travelling companion, academic Stephen Linton, told The New Yorker that Graham had spoken to Kim in detail about the political pressures on President Bill Clinton.

“He provided an explanation for the US position in a way that made sense to an old village elder,” Linton said.

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Graham never visited North Korea again and appears to have met neither the younger Kim nor Kim Jong-un, the country’s current ruler.

However, his wife, Ruth Graham, visited without Graham in 1997; their son Franklin visited a number of times after that.

 

http:// www.scmp.com/news/asia/diplomacy/article/2134236/north-korea-how-preacher-billy-graham-opened-door-america-hermit

 

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