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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast
Episode: The right thing: A deal with God
Description: ***This programme contains references to imprisonment, child abandonment and references to suicide which some listeners may find upsetting***
Since the 1950s, North Korea has been an authoritarian, isolationist state, and in practice there is no freedom of religion. Timothy Cho and his schoolteacher parents had learned to distrust and even fear Christianity. But the faith was going to play a significant role in Timothy’s life.
At the age of nine, Timothy returned from school, to find that his parents had fled the country, leaving him behind. So, at the age of 17, he decided to follow them, but was ca...