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The country that most needs smuggled Bibles today - much more than China does - is North Korea, where possessing even just one Bible is grounds for execution. Unfortunately, North Korea is also the country that Bible smuggling organizations have the toughest time penetrating.

Why is it so tough to get Bibles into North Korea?

There are at least three proximate reasons. First, foreigners posing as tourists cannot smuggle Bibles into North Korea because North Korea only issues tourist visas for its expensive government tours. Participants in these North Korea tours must fly in and out of Pyongyang, the capital city, visit only where they are led and stay in bugged hotel rooms. Participants in these tours are watched around the clock.

Second, entering North Korea illegally risks death. North Korea's southern border (with South Korea) is militarized, electrified and landmined, while its northern border with China and Russia is guarded by soldiers in pillboxes and hidden foxholes.

Third, due to the world's most extreme persecution of Christianity, Christian groups in North Korea are deeply underground and seldom larger than individual families, too small to coordinate receiving Bibles in large quantities.

Why does North Korea persecute Christianity so harshly?

While North Korea is known to most as the last Stalinist state in the world, it is actually an anti-Christian theocracy based on a Satanic religion called Juche.

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