It is known that the North Korean regime does not recognize the world of religion based on socialist materialism that the source of all things is material There are religious facilities in North Korea.
They are concentrated in Pyongyang, but Buddhist facilities are restored and preserved in some temples as historical and cultural relics in the provinces North Korean religious facilities were examined through satellite images.
First, as Protestant facilities, there are Bongsu Church and Chilgol Church in Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang City (Figure 1) Bongsu Church is located in Konkuk-dong, Mangyongdae District in Pyongyang, which was called the Jerusalem of the East because of the prosperity of Christianity.
It was completed in October 1988 According to data such as Namu Wiki, North Korea was shocked and stimulated by the 1988 Seoul Olympics and competitively held the World Festival of Youth and Students (June 1989).
It is said that religious facilities such as Ro Bongsu Church were built in haste Looking at the satellite image, there is Bongsu Church on the other side of the Pothong River, Pyongyang Theological Seminary on the side, a parsonage in the back, and the building of the Central Committee of the Korean Christian Federation in the front.
In the front yard of Bongsu Church, you can see a volleyball court line drawn on the floor It is said that only the family of the manager usually resides in the church, but when foreigners visit, a group of men and women in their 40s and 50s carefully selected by the Labor Party gathers and holds a disguised service.
According to pastor lim hyeon-soo from Canada, in order to attend services here, you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in advance to the United Front It means that we have to give tens of millions of won to the North Korean Workers' Party.
The current head of the United Front Department is Ri Seon-gwon, who gained notoriety in Korean society for his remarks about “naengmyeon throat” Ri Seon-gwon was newly appointed as the head of the United Front Department in June 2022.
Originally, Christians in North Korea were classified as a hostile class, and it is known as an established theory that they were all eradicated by the end of the 1950s Namu Wiki and others explain that it is a false show to show everything that exists now.
Chilgol Church is located in Chilgol 1-dong, Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang (Figure 1 right) It was completed on November 29, 1992.
Kang Ban-seok, Kim Il-sung's mother, attended the church as a Presbyterian deacon Chilgol Church has a museum along with a statue of Kang Ban-seok, the mother of Kim Il-sung.
Judging from the satellite image, the memorial museum is built in the lower right corner larger than the main church In Figure 2, there is the Catholic Jangchung Cathedral and the Russian Orthodox Jeongbaek Temple in Pyongyang.
Jangchung Cathedral, a Catholic church, is located in Jangchung 1-dong, Mission District, Pyongyang It was originally built in 1934, but it was blown up in 1949 due to Kim Il-sung's anti-religious policies.
However, it is said that the Vatican does not officially recognize this Jangchung Cathedral In North Korea after the liberation of August 15th, catholics put anti-communism first, and were particularly uncooperative.
The reason is that the cathedral belongs to the Vatican, and it is said that they refused to listen to the words of the communist regime in North Korea So, at that time, Kim Il-sung blew up the Jangchung Cathedral, which was hastily restored ahead of the World Festival of Youth and Students.
According to Namu Wiki, etc , there are no priests or nuns at Jangchung Catholic Church, but believers gather together and hold a prayer meeting under the supervision of the president and vice president.
Jeongbaek Temple, a Russian Orthodox church, is located in Jeongbaek 2-dong, Nakrang District, Pyongyang (Figure 2 right) It was built to commemorate Kim Jong-il's visits to Russia in 2001 and 2002, and a consecration ceremony was held on August 24, 2006.
In the satellite image, the headquarters of the Joseon Orthodox Federation and the building of the priest's house can be seen in front of Jeongbaek Temple As for Buddhist temples, there is Gwangbeopsa Temple in Pyongyang as a representative figure in Figure 3, and there are several temples in Pyeongseong, Pyeongnam, and other provinces.
Among them, Anguksa Temple in Pyongsung City, Pyongnam Province, was first opened to the public after North Korea restored it at the end of last year Gwangbeopsa Temple is located in Daeseong-dong, Daeseong District, Pyongyang.
It is said to be an old temple that was built during the reign of King Gwanggaeto of Goguryeo and has been handed down to this day At the entrance to the facility, there is Haetalmun Gate followed by Cheonwangmun Gate, and an octagonal five-story stone pagoda stands in front of Daeungjeon Hall.
There are Seoseungdang and Dongseungdang on both sides of the stone pagoda, so they are used as a yosachae for monks and as a sailor for classes Monks are known to commute to and from work once or twice a week, returning home.
As for local temples, there is Anguksa Temple in Bonghak-dong, Pyeongseong-si, Pyeongnam-do It was founded during the Goguryeo period, and was repaired and opened to the public in October 2022, not for the restoration of religious facilities, but for the purpose of cultivating national cultural heritage.
It is said that Kim Jong-il visited this place when he was young and praised it as “a wonderful historical site that shows our old architecture ” As reviewed above, there are two churches, one cathedral, and one Russian Orthodox temple in Pyongyang as religious facilities in North Korea, and Buddhist temples are known to be scattered in Pyongyang and some other provinces.
It is said that churches and cathedrals were built in haste to welcome foreign guests in preparation for the 1989 Pyongyang World Festival of Youth and Students Conclusion The Seoul 1988 Olympics began amid negative air currents from home and abroad in the preparation stage for hosting the Games.
At the time, the general atmosphere of concern was that it was premature for a small, poor and less democratized country like Korea to do so But we made it.
And the results were beyond expectations Some analysts say that the world's perception of Korea and Koreans has changed positively, and that it has contributed to the collapse and collapse of the Western communist bloc.
On the other hand, for North Korea, this was a disaster The country was ruined while pushing for the World Festival of Youth and Students recklessly to imitate our 1988 Olympics.
Inviting and bringing many foreign guests, feeding, sleeping, showing off, and entertaining, insufficient foreign currency wasted, and in the process of preparation, hotels, restaurants, and other social infrastructure were hastily built in a hurry, and the economy collapsed This eventually led to the Arduous March from the mid-1990s, and 3 million people are known to have starved to death.
Foreign media reported that one-tenth of North Korea's population died, and some are still quoted as such One-tenth of North Korea's population is estimated to have been between 2.
5 And 2 6 Million At The Time
It is believed that the collapse and fall of the communist countries in the West played a major role in North Korea's Arduous March in the mid-to-late 1990s It is said that the fact that aid to North Korea was cut off from Eastern Europe had a lot of influence.
Until then, North Korea lived on the economic aid provided by communist countries in Eastern Europe On the other hand, Korea had long since achieved economic self-reliance by escaping from foreign aid at the time.
And now, our Republic of Korea has proudly changed from a country receiving aid to a country giving aid Such cases are said to be unprecedented in the world.
It's something to be proud of It is by no means “the Republic of Korea is a shameful country that should not have been born.
” The derogatory remarks about Korea instigated by some politicians in the past still make us sad and angry Until the 1960s and 1970s, it is said that North Korea lived better than South Korea.
It is not because North Korea is doing well in the economy, but because the western communist bloc provided a lot of economic aid We also received foreign aid, but we did not just share it because of welfare.
If we share it, it becomes shit and what remains is zero We achieved an economic miracle by borrowing foreign loans, including aid.
It seems that North Korea, knowing that foreign aid would last forever, got drunk on it and did not think of becoming self-reliant, just playing around and eating like grasshoppers What made this difference between the South and the North? There may be differences in system and ideology, but I think the difference in leaders is big.
If you meet the leader well, that's what we do in the world cup soccer world We should be grateful to our pioneering leaders in the past.
no We, the people of the Republic of Korea, wrote a lot.
We should be grateful to each other and to our mother and father's generation We must not forget the hungry past.
We still have a long way to go ※ Columns by external authors may not match the editorial direction of this magazine.
We achieved an economic miracle by borrowing foreign loans, including aid It seems that North Korea, knowing that foreign aid would last forever, got drunk on it and did not think of becoming self-reliant, just playing around and eating like grasshoppers.
What made this difference between the South and the North? There may be differences in system and ideology, but I think the difference in leaders is big If you meet the leader well, that's what we do in the world cup soccer world.
We should be grateful to our pioneering leaders in the past no.
We, the people of the Republic of Korea, wrote a lot We should be grateful to each other and to our mother and father's generation.
We must not forget the hungry past We still have a long way to go.
※ Columns by external authors may not match the editorial direction of this magazine We achieved an economic miracle by borrowing foreign loans, including aid.
It seems that North Korea, knowing that foreign aid would last forever, got drunk on it and did not think of becoming self-reliant, just playing around and eating like grasshoppers What made this difference between the South and the North? There may be differences in system and ideology, but I think the difference in leaders is huge.
If you meet the leader well, that's what we do in the world cup soccer world We should be grateful to our pioneering leaders in the past.
no We, the people of the Republic of Korea, wrote a lot.
We should be grateful to each other and to our mother and father's generation We must not forget the hungry past.
We still have a long way to go ※ Columns by external authors may not match the editorial direction of this magazine.
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