These two were taken into custody and being interrogated by the authorities for criminal acts against the Republic, the same accusation that kept Youth With a Mission missionary Kenneth Bae in prison for more than two years, longer than any other American arrested in the country. (Bae was finally released, in ailing health, in 2014.)
Both PUST and YUST employs Christian to be a member of their faculty, together with other US citizens, along with other foreigners from different countries, who consider the position missionary work. The government controls their programs of studies but most of the teachers taught their faith secretly.
Though they "can't directly preach the word of God, we can indirectly influence the people there by being good Christians," Abraham Kim stated, whose Chicago University Bible Fellowship donated $30,000 to help fund PUST's medical school, claimed by Business Insider.
What's happening with Song and Duk in North Korea shows that spreading Christianity in that country is very life threatening,but it's not a hindrance for Song to go In North Korea, and with that, all the members of the Korean-language Sao Paulo Oriental Mission church in Brazil raised money for his trip to North Korea. Before his departure in a city of totalitarianism, he posted on the church website "I've committed to devoting my last drop of blood to this work," he wrote. Not all PUST teachers are religious. Will Scott of University of Michigan who taught at PUST in 2013 and 2015, told Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-detention-idUSKBN17X1T3 ) he felt welcome in the community despite being an atheist.
Abraham Kim is the administrative director of the Chicago University Bible Fellowship, pledge $30,000 in 2013 to PUST's campaign to build a new medical school.He said, "can't directly preach the word of God, we can indirectly influence the people there by being good Christians".
"I've committed to devoting my last drop of blood to this work," he wrote.
