This video is spreading across the internet faster than any government can contain it.
Millions have watched.
Thousands have shared in the last 48 hours alone.
And there’s a reason.
a former elite bodyguard to Kim Jong-un delivered a warning that could shake the foundations of the world’s most secretive regime.
The year he warned about 2026.
That’s not future anymore.
We’re living in it right now.
What this man told the Supreme Leader before he escaped with his life.
Well, you’ll understand in the next 30 minutes why they want this testimony buried.
Intelligence agencies across three continents have taken note.
The underground church in North Korea is praying around the clock.
And somewhere in Pyongyang, in a fortified palace surrounded by soldiers and surveillance, a dictator remembers the words spoken to him by the one man who stood closest to absolute power.
My name is De Jung.
For 12 years, I was a member of the Supreme Guard Command, the elite force entrusted with protecting Kim Jong-uns life.
I would have died for him without hesitation.
I nearly did die, but not for him.
for refusing to keep silent about a power infinitely greater than his.
This is not just my story.
This is a prophetic warning.
This is a testimony of transformation that defies explanation and time is running out.
Section two, formal introduction 2 to 5%.
Before I tell you about the night I met Jesus in a prison cell or the moment I stood before Kim Jong-un and delivered a message I knew would cost me everything, you need to understand who I was.
Because the transformation you’re about to witness, it didn’t happen to a dissident or a rebel.
It happened to a true believer in the regime.
My name is De Jung.
In Korean, it means great and righteous.
A name my father chose carefully when I was born, hoping I would bring honor to our family.
I am 34 years old now.
I have been free for just over one year.
But for the first 33 years of my life, I lived in the most isolated nation on earth.
I was born in Pyongyang in the Moran Bong district, one of the elite neighborhoods reserved for families with unquestioned loyalty to the party.
My father was a colonel in the Korean People’s Army.
My mother was what the regime calls a model citizen, someone who never questioned, never doubted, never wavered from the official narrative.
They raised me to believe that Kim Jong-un was not just a leader but a divine being.
That North Korea was not just a nation but a paradise on earth.
That everything outside our borders was corrupt, evil, and hostile to our perfect society.
I believed this with every fiber of my being.
When I was 15 years old, something extraordinary happened.
Out of tens of thousands of young men across North Korea, I was selected for special training in the Supreme Guard Command.
This is the most elite security force in the country.
The soldiers who protect the Kim family directly.
Less than 1% of applicants are ever chosen.
The selection process involves physical testing, psychological evaluation, family background investigation going back three generations, and ideological purity assessments that last for months.
The day I received the letter informing me of my selection, my father wept with pride.
My mother prepared a feast with rations she had saved for months.
Our neighbors congratulated us as if I had been chosen by the gods themselves.
In North Korea, this was the highest honor a young man could receive.
By the time I was 22, I had completed seven years of brutal training.
I had mastered hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, tactical operations, and perhaps most importantly, the art of absolute silence and obedience.
I learned to stand for 18 hours without moving.
I learned to notice a threat before it materialized.
I learned to see everything and react to nothing unless ordered.
And then I was assigned to Kim Jong-un’s personal security detail.
For 10 years, I stood in the same rooms as the Supreme Leader.
I heard his private conversations.
I witnessed moments that no camera ever captured.
I saw behind the curtain of power that the rest of North Korea and the rest of the world never sees.
I traveled with him to his palaces, his private compounds, his secret meetings.
And for 10 years, I never questioned what I saw.
Until one night, in the most unlikely of places, I found something that would destroy my faith in the regime and birth a faith in something far greater.
What I’m about to share with you has cost me my country, my family, and nearly my life.
But it’s given me something worth infinitely more.
Truth, freedom, and a mission I cannot abandon.
Even if speaking out costs me everything I have left.
I didn’t know then that I was being prepared to deliver a warning that would reach around the world.
A warning about 2026.
A warning that is unfolding right now as you watch this section three.
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To understand how a man becomes the bodyguard to a dictator, you have to understand what it means to grow up in North Korea.
Let me take you back to my childhood to a world most of you cannot imagine.
So I was 7 years old the first time I truly understood the power of the Supreme Leader.
It was a cold morning in February and my entire school, hundreds of children, was marched to Kim Sung Square in the center of Pyongyang.
We stood in formation for 3 hours in the freezing wind, waiting for Kim Jong- to pass by in his motorcade.
I remember my fingers going numb.
I remember wanting to cry, but being too afraid to show weakness.
When the black cars finally appeared, flanked by motorcycles and soldiers, everyone around me began to weep.
Not from cold, from joy, or what we had been taught to call joy.
Teachers sobbed openly.
Children raised their hands toward the passing vehicles as if reaching for salvation.
The propaganda speakers mounted on every building blared patriotic songs about our dear leaders wisdom and power.
I didn’t weep that day.
I was confused.
Why were people crying over a man in a car? But I learned quickly not to ask such questions.
My father was a strict man shaped by decades of military service.
Every morning he woke me at 5:00 a.
m.
for physical training, running, push-ups, combat drills in our small courtyard.
He believed that strength and discipline were the highest virtues.
He taught me that obedience to the Supreme Leader was not just a duty, but a sacred calling.
Dejun, he would say, gripping my shoulders with his rough hands.
Our family has served the Kim dynasty for three generations.
Your grandfather fought in the Korean War.
I have given my life to the army.
You will give yours to something even greater.
Never bring shame to this family.
Never question the wisdom of our leaders.
Only obey.
My mother was gentler, but her gentleness was wrapped in fear.
She never spoke critically of the regime, not even in whispers behind closed doors.
She taught me to smile when party officials visited our neighborhood.
She taught me which phrases to repeat during self-criticism sessions at school.
She taught me survival, but beneath her compliance, I sometimes saw something else in her eyes.
Sadness, maybe, or resignation.
I didn’t understand it then.
School in North Korea is not about education.
It’s about indoctrination.
We spent more time studying the biographies of Kiml Sun and Kim Jong-il than we did learning mathematics.
We memorized their speeches.
We sang songs praising their achievements.
We were taught that South Korea was a puppet state of the evil Americans.
That the rest of the world envied our socialist paradise.
That we were the most prosperous nation on earth.
I believed it all.
Why wouldn’t I? It was the only reality I knew.
But even as a child, I noticed contradictions.
If we were the most prosperous nation on earth, why did we stand in line for hours to receive our monthly rice rations? If the Supreme Leader provided everything, why were there families in our neighborhood who looked so thin, so tired, so hungry? One evening when I was 10 years old, I made the mistake of asking my father about this.
Father, if the Supreme Leader provides everything, why do we have so little? His response was immediate and terrifying.
He grabbed me by the arm, pulled me into our bedroom, and closed the door.
His face was pale, his voice a harsh whisper.
Do not ever ask such questions.
Do you understand? Not to me, not to your mother, not to anyone.
Such thoughts are poison.
They will destroy you.
They will destroy our family.
I never asked again.
I learned to suppress doubt the way you learn to suppress hunger.
You acknowledge it silently, then push it down and focus on something else.
When I was 15, the selection letter arrived.
My test scores, my family background, my physical abilities, everything had been evaluated, and I had been chosen for the Supreme Guard Command Academy.
My parents’ reaction told me everything I needed to know about how rare and prestigious this was.
My father, a man who rarely showed emotion, embraced me and wept.
My mother prepared a feast that must have cost her months of saved rations.
The training began immediately.
They sent me to a compound in the mountains north of Pyongyang, a place whose location I was forbidden to disclose, whose existence I was forbidden to acknowledge.
200 young men arrived.
Only 50 would graduate.
The physical training was brutal beyond description.
We ran 20 km before breakfast.
We trained in hand-to-hand combat until our bodies were covered in bruises.
We practiced with weapons until we could disassemble and reassemble a rifle blindfolded in under 30 seconds.
We learned to endure cold hunger, sleep deprivation, and pain without complaint.
But the physical training was nothing compared to the psychological conditioning.
They broke us down systematically, stripping away individual identity, personal desires, independent thought.
We were taught that we existed only to serve, that our lives had no value except in protecting the Supreme Leader, that we would die gladly if it meant stopping a single bullet meant for him.
During one winter training exercise, we were sent into the mountains with no food, no shelter, and minimal clothing.
We were told to survive for 3 days.
One of my fellow trainees, a young man named Minho, collapsed from hypothermia on the second night.
I tried to help him to share my body heat to keep him alive.
An instructor stopped me.
“Let him fall,” the instructor said coldly.
“The weak do not deserve to protect the supreme leader.
If you help him, you fail as well.
” Minho died that night.
We buried him in the snow and continued training the next morning.
No one spoke of it.
To speak of it would be to question the training, and to question the training would be to question the regime.
I learned to silence my conscience.
I learned to obey without thinking.
I learned to be the perfect soldier.
By the time I graduated at age 18, I was no longer the boy who had asked his father uncomfortable questions.
I was a weapon forged by the regime, aimed at any threat to its power, devoid of personal will.
Or so I thought.
My first assignment was guard duty at one of Kim Jong-‘s residences.
I stood outside doors for 12-hour shifts, my rifle at my side, my eyes scanning constantly for threats that never came.
I saw glimpses of luxury that contradicted everything I had been taught about our nation’s equality.
Imported foods from Europe, expensive liquors, rooms filled with technology and entertainment that ordinary North Koreans could never dream of possessing.
But I did not question.
To question was to betray.
To betray was to die.
and worse to bring death to your family.
When Kim Jong-il died in 2011 and Kim Jong-un took power, the entire nation went into orchestrated mourning.
The propaganda told us that the heavens themselves wept at the loss of our dear leader.
In reality, many of us in the security forces were uncertain about the young, untested new leader.
But uncertainty was not something we could express.
I was 22 when I was selected for Kim Jong-un’s personal detail.
Out of thousands of Supreme Guard members, only about 50 of us were trusted to be in his immediate presence.
The selection process involved another round of background checks, loyalty tests, and evaluations.
My father’s impeccable service record helped.
My own perfect performance record helped more.
The first time I stood in the same room as Kim Jong-un, I was terrified.
Not because he was threatening, but because I had been conditioned to see him as something more than human, as divine.
We were taught that his very presence carried power, that his wisdom exceeded that of ordinary mortals, that he could perceive thoughts and intentions.
He walked past me during that first assignment.
Close enough that I could hear his breathing.
Close enough to see that he was just a man.
Shorter than I expected.
Softer, ordinary in ways that contradicted the god-like image we had been fed our entire lives.
But I buried that observation immediately.
Even noticing such things felt like treason.
For the next several years, I served with absolute loyalty.
I traveled with Kim to his various compounds across the country.
I stood guard during his meetings with military officials, foreign diplomats, and party leaders.
I heard conversations that revealed the inner workings of the regime, the constant paranoia, the brutal calculations, the casual cruelty.
I witnessed executions ordered over perceived slights.
I heard Kim laugh about the starvation in the countryside.
I saw the fear in the eyes of highranking officials who knew their lives depended on the Supreme Leader’s mood.
And slowly, so slowly, I barely noticed it happening.
Doubt began to grow in the corners of my mind.
If Kim Jong-un was divine, why did he fear so much? If he was all powerful, why did he need thousands of guards? If he was wise beyond measure, why did his policies lead to suffering? These questions were dangerous.
I pushed them down, suppressed them, tried to focus only on my duty.
But doubt once planted is difficult to kill.
It grows in the dark places of the heart, watered by every contradiction, nourished by every injustice witnessed.
I was 28 years old, standing guard outside Kim’s private office when I overheard something that would crack my faith even further.
Kim was meeting with a general about food distribution in the provinces.
The general reported that thousands were starving, that children were dying from malnutrition.
Kim’s response was chilling in its indifference.
Let them die.
The weak serve no purpose.
Focus resources on Pyongyang in the military.
The rest are expendable.
I stood there, my face expressionless, my posture perfect, my rifle at the ready.
But inside something broke.
If the Supreme Leader cared nothing for his people, if he saw us as expendable, what did that make him? a god or a tyrant.
I didn’t have language for what I was feeling.
I didn’t have a framework for understanding it.
All I knew was that the foundation of my belief was cracking and I was terrified of what would happen if it shattered completely.
I didn’t know then that God was preparing me for something far greater than guard duty.
I didn’t know that my doubt was not weakness but the beginning of awakening.
I didn’t know that very soon in the most unexpected way I would encounter truth that would set me free.
Bookmark sect 4 catalyst journey 20 to 40%.
Everything changed on a cold night in November 2019.
I was 30 years old.
I had been serving in the Supreme Guard Command for 12 years and I was assigned to a duty that seemed routine but would alter the course of my life forever.
A defector had been captured near the Chinese border.
He was being held in a detention facility in Pyongyang, awaiting interrogation and likely execution.
My unit was assigned to inspect his belongings.
Standard protocol to check for intelligence materials, foreign currency or contraband.
I was part of the team that entered the holding room where his possessions had been spread across a metal table.
There wasn’t much.
tattered clothing, a small amount of Chinese yuan, some food wrappers, a pair of worn shoes, and hidden inside one of those shoes carved out from the sole was a small book.
“My fellow guard found it first.
” He pulled it out, examined it briefly, and tossed it onto the table with disgust.
“Christian propaganda,” he muttered.
“The usual garbage they try to smuggle.
” I glanced at it.
The cover was plain, the pages thin.
Korean text on the front.
Yoan Bulgum, Gospel of John.
Standard procedure was to burn such materials immediately.
We were trained to view Christian literature as psychological warfare from the West, designed to weaken our ideological purity and undermine the regime.
I had destroyed such materials before without a second thought.
But that night, something was different.
Maybe it was the accumulated weight of my doubts.
Maybe it was divine providence.
Maybe both.
As my fellow guard turned away to catalog the rest of the items, I made a decision that should have been impossible for someone like me.
In one quick motion, I slipped the small book inside my uniform jacket.
My heart pounded.
If anyone had seen me, I would have been arrested immediately.
What I had just done was not merely against protocol.
It was treason.
Possessing Christian materials carried a sentence of years in a labor camp, possibly death.
But I had to know.
I had to understand what was in these pages that made the regime so afraid.
I made it through the rest of my shift in a state of barely controlled panic.
The book felt like it was burning against my chest, as if it might somehow expose itself.
Every time a superior officer looked in my direction, I was certain I had been discovered.
But I hadn’t been.
At the end of my shift, I returned to my barracks, a small room I shared with three other guards.
I waited until after midnight until I could hear the steady breathing of my roommates sleeping.
Then I pulled out the book and a small flashlight.
Under my blanket, hidden from view, I opened the Gospel of John.
I had been taught that Christian books were filled with lies and Western propaganda.
I expected to find attacks on our government, calls for rebellion, political manipulation disguised as religion.
Instead, I found something completely different.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
The language was strange to me, poetic, profound, unlike anything I had read before.
Our school textbooks were dry and repetitive.
Our propaganda was loud and bombastic.
This was different, quiet, beautiful, dense with meaning.
I didn’t fully understand.
I kept reading, barely breathing, terrified of being discovered, but unable to stop.
I read about Jesus healing the sick, teaching crowds, challenging religious authorities, speaking about truth and life and light.
One passage stopped me cold.
Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
I read that sentence three times.
The truth will set you free.
Free from what? I was already free, wasn’t I? North Korea was paradise.
We were the most free people on earth.
That’s what we had been taught.
But even as I thought those things, I knew they were lies.
I had seen the prisons.
I had heard the screams.
I had watched people disappear for speaking carelessly.
I had stood guard while families were executed for one member’s crime.
We were not free.
We were enslaved.
And we called our slavery freedom because we had been told to.
I read until my eyes burned.
Until I could no longer stay awake.
I hid the book in a gap behind a loose tile in the wall of our barracks.
The next night, I read again, and the night after that, over the following weeks, I consumed the Gospel of John in secret.
I read about Jesus claiming to be the son of God.
I read about him being rejected by religious leaders and political authorities.
I read about his death on a cross and most impossibly his resurrection from the dead.
I didn’t know if any of it was true, but I knew it was different from anything I had ever encountered.
This Jesus did not demand worship through fear.
He invited it through love.
He did not threaten his enemies.
He died for them.
He did not cling to power.
He surrendered it.
Everything about him contradicted everything I had been taught about leadership, power, and divinity.
And something deep inside me, something I didn’t even know was there.
Responded to his words.
I began to pray, though I didn’t really know how.
Jesus, I would whisper in the darkness.
If you are real, show me.
I need to know the truth.
I repeated this prayer for months.
Nothing dramatic happened.
No visions, no audible voices, just a growing sense of peace that I couldn’t explain, and a growing conviction that I could no longer serve Kim Jong-un with the same unquestioning loyalty.
But everything changed on a night in March 2020.
I had fallen asleep after another late shift, exhausted physically and spiritually.
And I had a dream unlike anything I had experienced before.
I was standing in Kim Jong-un’s palace, the same rooms I guarded every day.
But they were empty, silent.
The usual presence of guards and officials was gone.
I was alone.
Then I saw a figure standing at the end of the hallway.
He was wearing white robes that seemed to emit light.
His face was kind beyond description, stronger than any leader I had ever seen, gentler than any person I had ever known.
He walked toward me and I fell to my knees, not out of fear, but out of overwhelming recognition.
Somehow I knew who this was.
Deéjung, he said, and his voice was like water on fire, soothing and powerful at once.
Why do you serve a false king? I serve the supreme leader, I heard myself say.
He is divine.
He provides for us.
He, the figure, Jesus, I knew it was him, smiled with such sadness that it broke something in my chest.
I am the way, the truth, and the life, he said.
No one comes to the father except through me.
Not through kings, not through regimes, not through ideologies, through me.
Who are you? I asked, though I already knew.
I am Jesus Christ, the one you have been reading about, the one who died for your sins, the one who rose from death, and I am calling you out of darkness into my marvelous light.
Then he reached out and touched my forehead and everything changed.
Visions flooded my mind.
Images too fast and too vivid to fully process.
I saw North Korean prison camps as they truly were.
Hell on earth, places of unimaginable suffering.
I saw Kim Jong-un’s palaces built on the broken backs of starving citizens.
I saw the propaganda machine, a system of lies designed to enslave minds.
I saw the truth beneath the facade.
And I saw something else.
I saw dates, numbers, events.
I saw the year 2026 appearing again and again.
I saw images of change, of upheaval, of something breaking that had seemed unbreakable.
You will speak truth to power, Jesus said.
You will warn the one you serve.
You will tell him that I offer mercy even now, even to him.
Do not fear.
I am with you.
I wanted to protest, to say it was impossible, that speaking such things to Kim Jong-un would mean certain death.
But Jesus looked at me with eyes full of love and said, “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world yet forfeit his soul? And what does it profit a man to preserve his life but lose eternity?” I woke up sitting upright in my bed, gasping for air, my face wet with tears.
My roommates were still sleeping.
The barracks were dark and quiet, but everything inside me had changed.
I knew with a certainty I had never felt about anything.
That Jesus Christ was real, that he was Lord.
That everything I had believed about Kim Jong-un, about North Korea, about my purpose in life was a lie.
And I knew what I had to do.
I had to tell Kim Jong-un the truth.
I had to warn him even if it killed me.
The next morning, I stood guard during one of Kim’s private meetings, and I saw him completely differently.
Not as a god, not even as a powerful leader, just as a man.
A frightened, insecure, cruel man who had been told he was divine and had believed it.
And I felt something I never expected to feel.
Pity, compassion, even love.
If Jesus could love me, a man who had worshiped a false god for 30 years, then he could love Kim Jong-un, too.
If Jesus could forgive me, he could forgive anyone.
That day, I made my decision.
I would deliver the warning that Jesus had given me.
I would tell Kim Jong-un about a king whose power exceeded his own, whose mercy was greater than his cruelty, whose kingdom would outlast every regime on earth.
I knew I would probably die, but I also knew that for the first time in my life, I was truly free.
If you’re still watching, it’s because something in you recognizes that this testimony matters.
This isn’t just my story.
It’s a warning to a watching world.
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Living as a Christian while serving as Kim Jong-un’s bodyguard was like carrying a bomb that could explode at any moment.
Every day I stood in the presence of a man who claimed divinity while I prayed silently to the true God.
Every night I returned to my barracks and read the gospel I had hidden.
Knowing that discovery meant death, the months following my encounter with Christ in that dream were the most spiritually intense of my life.
I was being transformed from the inside out, but I had to maintain perfect composure on the outside.
One slip, one moment of visible doubt or hesitation, and I would be questioned, investigated, and destroyed.
I began to pray constantly, not out loud, of course, but in my mind, in every spare moment.
Standing guard behind Kim during meetings, I would pray for his salvation.
Walking through the palace corridors, I would pray for the underground believers I didn’t yet know existed.
Lying in bed at night, I would pray for wisdom, for courage, for the right moment to speak.
The Gospel of John I had hidden became my lifeline.
I read it over and over, memorizing entire passages.
I wanted to understand more, to know everything about Jesus.
But that one book was all I had.
I rationed my reading like a starving man, rationing food, savoring every word, squeezing every drop of truth from each verse.
But I was also desperately lonely.
I couldn’t share what I had discovered with anyone.
My fellow guards would report me instantly.
My family, if I somehow managed to contact them, would be endangered by the knowledge.
I was surrounded by people every day.
but completely isolated in the most important area of my life.
That changed 3 months after my conversion through what I can only describe as divine providence.
I was assigned to inspect vehicles entering the palace compound, a routine security duty we rotated through regularly.
One afternoon, a delivery truck arrived with supplies for the palace kitchen.
The driver was a middle-aged man, thin and weathered like most North Korean civilians outside the elite classes.
As I checked his identification papers, he looked at me directly, something most civilians avoided when dealing with guards.
In his eyes, I saw something different, a kind of piece that didn’t match his circumstances.
He handed me his papers, and as I took them, his finger briefly traced a shape on my palm.
It happened so quickly that anyone watching would have missed it.
But I felt it clearly.
The outline of a fish.
My heart stopped.
The fish symbol.
I had read about it in the gospel.
Early Christians used it as a secret sign to identify each other during persecution.
I kept my face expressionless, approved his entry, and waved him through.
But my mind was racing.
Was he a believer or was this a test, a trap set by security forces to identify Christians within the military? The next week, the same driver returned.
This time, when I inspected his truck, I found a small piece of paper tucked under the seat, placed where only someone doing a thorough inspection would find it.
On it was written a Bible verse reference, John 3:16.
I memorized it and burned the paper immediately.
That night, I found the verse in my hidden gospel.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
This was no trap.
This was a brother in Christ reaching out to me.
Over the following weeks, we developed a careful system of communication.
A note hidden here, a coded phrase there, always careful, always watching for surveillance.
Finally, he passed me an address in Pyongyang and instructions for making contact.
3 weeks later, on my day off, I followed those instructions.
I traveled to an old district in eastern Pyongyang, far from the showcase areas tourists and elites frequented.
The address led me to a dilapidated apartment building that looked abandoned.
I knocked on the door using the pattern he had specified.
Three short knocks, pause, two more.
The door opened just a crack.
A woman’s face appeared, elderly, cautious, but with kind eyes.
I am a friend of Kim, I said using the code name the driver had given me.
She studied me for a long moment, then opened the door fully.
Welcome, brother.
We have been praying for you.
Inside that small apartment, in a room with windows covered by thick blankets, sat eight people, men and women of various ages, all North Korean, all believers, an underground church.
I had found my family.
The elderly woman, whose name was Mrs.
Choi explained that there were thousands of Christians scattered across North Korea, meeting in secret, worshiping in whispers, merit risking everything to follow Jesus.
They communicated through coded messages, recognized each other through subtle signs, and protected each other fiercely.
We heard about a guard who took a gospel instead of destroying it.
She said, “We have been praying for you for months, asking God to reveal himself to you and protect you.
” I broke down weeping.
For the first time since my conversion, I could worship openly, well, as openly as was possible in an underground church in North Korea.
We sang hymns so quietly they were barely audible.
We prayed in hushed voices.
We shared testimonies of how Christ had found us in the darkness.
There was a university professor who had found a Bible in a banned book collection he was supposed to catalog.
a factory worker whose brother had smuggled a gospel from China before being caught and executed.
A doctor who had met a missionary on the Chinese border and had been haunted by the gospel message until she surrendered to Christ.
Each story was unique, but the pattern was the same.
God pursuing people in the most unlikely places, breaking through decades of atheistic indoctrination, transforming hearts in a land dedicated to crushing faith.
One man stood out to me.
Pastor Sang, a former university professor in his 60s who had secretly led this church for over 15 years.
He had studied theology before the regime’s total suppression of Christianity, had been arrested and sent to a labor camp in his 30s, had somehow survived 10 years of that hell, and had emerged more committed to Christ than ever.
Brother Dejong, he said after I shared my testimony, God has placed you in an impossible position for a purpose.
You guard the body of a dictator while your soul belongs to the King of Kings.
This is not accident.
This is assignment.
But what am I supposed to do? I asked.
I can’t preach the gospel in the palace.
I can’t evangelize my fellow guards.
I can barely survive each day without being discovered.
You pray, Pastor Sang said simply.
You pray for Kim Jong-un’s salvation.
You pray for this nation.
You pray for wisdom.
And you wait for God’s timing.
When the moment comes, you will know.
Over the following months, I became part of this underground church.
I attended whenever I could manage it, which wasn’t often, given my schedule and the impossibility of explaining absences.
But each meeting strengthened my faith, reminded me I wasn’t alone, gave me courage to continue.
We studied the Bible together, learning from the smuggled portions various members had acquired.
We memorized scripture, knowing that our books could be discovered and destroyed.
But the word hidden in our hearts could never be taken.
We prayed for each other, for believers in labor camps, for those still trapped in darkness, for the day when we could worship openly, and we baptized new believers.
My own baptism happened on a freezing night in January 2021.
12 of us gathered at the Taidong River at 2:00 a.
m.
in a location carefully scouted to avoid surveillance cameras and patrols.
The water was so cold it felt like knives against my skin as I waited in.
Pastor Sang stood waist deep in the river, his breath visible in the winter air, his hands steady despite the cold.
Do you confess Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? He asked.
I do, I said, my voice barely above a whisper, but filled with more conviction than I had felt about anything in my life.
He is my king.
He is my God.
He is my everything.
Then I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
He placed one hand behind my back and one on my chest and lowered me under the water.
For just a moment, I was completely submerged in the river in the cold, in the darkness of night.
And then he lifted me up and I gasped for air and I felt clean for the first time in my life.
The other believers standing on the shore whispered their celebration, “Welcome to the family of God.
Welcome, brother.
Welcome.
” We dried off quickly and dispersed into the night, each taking a different route home.
But I walked through the empty streets of Pyongyang with a joy that seemed impossible given my circumstances.
I was a baptized Christian.
I was part of the universal church.
I belonged to a kingdom that would outlast every regime on earth.
But the double life was taking its toll.
Every day at the palace was a moral and spiritual strain.
I witnessed things that made my soul cry out.
Executions ordered casually, cruelty displayed proudly, suffering ignored deliberately.
I stood guard while Kim Jong-un feasted on imported delicacies while millions of North Koreans survived on rations that were barely enough to sustain life.
One particular incident nearly broke me.
I was assigned to guard an execution at Mayday Stadium, a massive venue usually used for propaganda displays and mass games.
This time it was being used for a public execution of three people caught possessing Bibles and holding secret worship services.
Kim Jong-un himself attended, sitting in the VIP section with military officials.
I was positioned near his seat, my rifle at the ready, my face expressionless.
The three believers were brought out, two men and one woman, all middle-aged, all showing signs of torture.
They were forced to kneel in the center of the stadium while their crimes were read over loudspeakers.
The crowd of thousands who’ve been forced to attend sat in silence, too afraid to show sympathy, too human not to feel it.
Then the firing squad raised their weapons.
I wanted to close my eyes.
I wanted to scream.
I wanted to throw down my rifle and run to those believers and die with them rather than stand guard while they were murdered for following the same Lord I had pledged my life to.
But I did none of those things.
I stood perfectly still, my face a mask, my soul screaming in agony, and I prayed silently, “Lord Jesus, receive them.
Welcome them home.
Let their deaths not be in vain.
The shots rang out.
The three believers fell and Kim Jong-un applauded.
That night, back in the underground church, I wept in Pastor Sangs arms.
I can’t do this anymore, I said.
I can’t serve him.
I can’t stand by while he murders our brothers and sisters.
I can’t.
You can, Pastor Sang said firmly.
Because Christ gives you strength.
But I believe your time is coming.
The burden you carry is too heavy for one man to bear without purpose.
God is preparing you for something.
Be ready.
The visions I had experienced in my dream began to return.
Not as full dreams, but as flashes during prayer, as impressions during Bible reading.
I kept seeing the year 2026.
I kept seeing images of change, of warning, of a message that needed to be delivered.
And I kept seeing myself standing before Kim Jong-un, speaking words that would either bring conviction or condemnation.
The underground church prayed for me constantly.
They prayed for my protection, for my mission, for the moment when God would make his will clear.
That moment came in February 2024.
I had been praying for months about whether and when to deliver the warning Jesus had shown me.
I was terrified.
Speaking such things to Kim Jong-un would almost certainly mean arrest, torture, death.
It would expose the underground church if I was interrogated.
It would bring suffering to everyone I loved.
But the burden grew heavier each day.
Every time I stood in Kim’s presence, I felt the Holy Spirit pressing on me.
Tell him, warn him, give him one more chance.
Finally, I knew I couldn’t wait any longer.
I met with the underground church one last time to tell them what I planned to do.
Pastor Sang prayed over me, his old hands on my head, his voice steady despite the tears in his eyes.
Brother De Jung, you may not survive this, but you will be obedient and that is all God asks.
The other believers gathered around laying hands on me, praying for courage, for protection, for the right words, for Kim Jong-un’s heart to be softened somehow.
A young woman named J Min, barely 20 years old, handed me a small piece of paper.
On it, she had written a promise from scripture.
Do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.
I left that gathering knowing I might never see these brothers and sisters again on this side of eternity.
But I also left knowing I was not alone.
God was with me.
The church was praying for me and whatever happened next was in his hands.
I was living between two kingdoms, serving one with my body, surrendering to another with my soul.
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Just one word, torn or seeking or deciding.
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Let your voice be heard because what I’m about to tell you the moment I spoke truth to power will show you that courage is possible even when everything is at stake.
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It was February 17, 2024.
A date I will remember until the day I die.
The day I stood before the most powerful man in North Korea and delivered a message from the king of heaven.
I woke that morning with a sense of clarity I had never experienced before.
No doubt, no second guessing, just absolute certainty that today was the day.
The Holy Spirit had made it unmistakably clear.
The time is now.
Speak while he will still hear.
My hands were steady as I put on my uniform.
My heart was calm as I reported for duty.
I felt like I was walking in a dream, or more accurately, like I had been asleep my whole life and was finally waking up.
That afternoon, I was assigned to Kim Jong-uns private study, one of his personal rooms in the main palace, offlimits to all but a handful of the most trusted guards.
It was rare to be alone with him in such an informal setting, and I recognized it immediately as divine orchestration.
The study was enormous, decorated with dark wood paneling and filled with artifacts of power, ceremonial swords, ancient scrolls, books in multiple languages that I suspected he had never read.
Behind a massive mahogany desk sat Kim Jong-un, reviewing documents and signing orders with casual strokes of his pen.
I stood at my post near the door as protocol demanded.
For several minutes, there was only the sound of papers rustling and the scratching of his pen.
Then, without warning, I spoke.
Supreme Leader.
He looked up, surprise crossing his face.
In the 12 years I had served in his presence, I had never initiated speech.
Guards were furniture, silent, obedient, invisible unless addressed.
Yes, Dejan.
His voice carried both curiosity and a trace of irritation.
What is it? I stepped forward, my hands empty and visible, my posture respectful but not subservient.
Supreme Leader, I request permission to speak on a matter of grave importance.
Kim leaned back in his chair, studying me with dark eyes that had ordered the deaths of thousands.
You have served me faithfully for many years.
I grant you permission.
Speak.
This was the moment, the point of no return.
I could feel the Holy Spirit’s presence like a warm hand on my shoulder, steadying me, giving me words I could never have crafted on my own.
Supreme Leader, I have stood between you and danger for 12 years.
I have been willing to give my life for yours without hesitation.
I speak now not as a traitor but as one who has seen a truth beyond this world.
A truth I cannot remain silent about even if speaking it costs me everything.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
What truth? I took a breath and spoke the words that would change everything.
There is a king whose authority supersedes yours.
His name is Jesus Christ.
He is not a western invention or imperialist propaganda.
He is the son of the living God and he reigns over all the earth including this nation including this palace including you supreme leader.
The room became very quiet.
I could hear my own heartbeat.
The ticking of an antique clock on the wall.
The distant sounds of the palace beyond the door.
Kim’s face darkened, but he did not stop me.
I continued.
Supreme Leader, you have been told that you are divine, but with all respect you are a man.
You were born.
You will die.
And when you do, you will stand before the true king and give an account of your life.
I have been shown this in a vision from God.
I have been given a message to deliver to you.
A warning about what is coming.
A warning? His voice was ice, but there was something else beneath it.
Uncertainty.
Fear.
I couldn’t tell.
Yes, a warning about the year 2026, which is less than 2 years away.
His expression shifted.
For just a moment, I saw genuine surprise mixed with suspicion.
What warning? I spoke the words that had been impressed on my heart through months of prayer.
In 2026, events will unfold that will shake this nation to its foundations.
I do not claim to know every detail.
I am not a prophet, just a messenger.
But I have been shown this.
The economic collapse will accelerate beyond what your officials are telling you.
Descent will grow within your own ranks among those you trust most.
The people’s hunger, physical and spiritual, will reach a breaking point.
And the underground church is multiplying faster than you can suppress it.
The gospel is spreading through this nation like fire through dry grass, and you cannot stop it.
Kim’s hands tightened on the armrests of his chair.
You speak treason.
I speak truth, I said.
And I felt bolder than I ever had in my life.
And here is the truth that matters most.
Jesus Christ offers you redemption.
Even now you have ordered the deaths of thousands.
You have claimed divinity that belongs only to God.
You have built a kingdom on lies and blood and the suffering of millions.
But the King of heaven is merciful beyond human comprehension.
If you repent, truly repent, if you turn to him, confess your sins and surrender your life to his lordship, he will forgive you.
Even you, Supreme Leader.
Even now, there is mercy available.
For a moment, just one moment, I saw something crack in his facade.
The mask of divinity slipped and I saw what he truly was.
A man terrified of losing control.
A man who had been told he was a god, but knew deep down that he was finite, mortal, accountable.
His hands trembled slightly as he gripped the desk.
But then the mask returned harder than before.
“You have lost your mind,” he said coldly.
Then he raised his voice.
guards.
The door burst open immediately.
Four of my fellow guards rushed in, weapons ready, eyes scanning for the threat.
When they saw me standing unarmed before Kim, confusion crossed their faces.
“This man has committed treason,” Kim said, his voice flat and emotionless.
“Take him to the lower cells.
He is to be interrogated fully.
I want to know who corrupted him, who sent him, and what network he is part of.
Use whatever methods are necessary.
” The guards grabbed my arms roughly, forcing me to my knees.
I did not resist.
There was no point, and I had known this would be the outcome.
As they dragged me toward the door, I spoke one last time, raising my voice so Kim could hear clearly.
Supreme Leader, I pray you remember this day.
I pray that when the warning comes to pass, when 2026 arrives and you see the signs I’ve spoken of, you will remember that you were offered mercy, that you were loved by a god you tried to replace, that there was still time even for you.
I am willing to die for delivering this message, but I could not face my God without giving you this chance.
” Kim Jong-un said nothing.
He turned back to his desk, picking up his pen as if dismissing me from existence.
But as the guards pulled me through the doorway, I saw his hand.
It was shaking.
The pen trembled in his grip.
I had planted a seed.
Whether it would ever grow, only God knew.
But I had been obedient, and that was enough.
The guards marched me through the palace corridors, the same hallways I had walked a thousand times as one of them, now walking as their prisoner.
Some of them looked at me with confusion, others with contempt, a few with something that might have been pity.
They took me down, down flights of stairs I had never descended before into the basement levels of the palace that existed on no official map.
The air grew colder, damper, darker.
We passed heavy doors with reinforced locks behind which I could hear occasional sounds, moans, weeping, the echo of suffering.
These were the cells reserved for those who had betrayed the Supreme Leader.
People entered this place, but they rarely left.
And when they did leave, they were broken beyond recognition or they were dead.
Finally, the guards threw me into a small cell.
Concrete on all sides, a single dim bulb overhead, no windows, no furniture except a metal bench bolted to the wall.
They stripped me of my uniform, leaving me in thin undergarments, and locked the heavy door behind them.
I was alone in the darkness.
For the first time since I had spoken to Kim, I felt fear rising in my chest.
I knew what came next.
interrogation, torture.
They would want names, connections, information about the underground church.
They would use pain, deprivation, psychological manipulation, whatever it took to break me.
I knelt on the cold concrete floor and prayed.
Father God, I have obeyed.
I have spoken your truth.
Now I ask for strength to endure what comes next.
Protect the believers.
Do not let me expose them under torture.
Seal my lips regarding anything that would endanger your church.
And if I must die, let my death glorify you.
Peace flooded over me.
Supernatural, inexplicable peace that made no sense given my circumstances.
I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit as tangibly as I had ever felt anything.
And I heard, not audibly, but unmistakably in my spirit the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant.
Now watch what I will do.
” The interrogation began the next morning.
Three men entered my cell.
Intelligence officers trained in extracting information through any means necessary.
They started with questions.
Who had recruited me? What organization was I part of? How many others in the guard command were compromised? Where did I get Christian materials? I answered only one thing again and again.
Jesus Christ is Lord.
They demanded details.
I repeated Jesus Christ is Lord.
They threatened my family.
I prayed silently and said Jesus Christ is Lord.
When verbal interrogation failed, they moved to physical methods.
I will not describe in detail what they did, not because I want to hide it, but because the specifics are less important than this truth.
Through it all, I felt the supernatural strength of Christ sustaining me.
Paul wrote in his letter to the Philippians about being content in all circumstances, about having strength through Christ who gives strength.
I had read those words in my hidden gospel.
Now I was living them.
The pain was real, excruciating at times, but it could not touch the core of who I was.
My body was being broken, but my spirit was more alive than it had ever been.
They broke my fingers, trying to get me to write confessions.
I refused.
They withheld food and water, pushing me to the edge of delirium.
I prayed through it.
They brought in my file, showed me photos of my family, threatened to arrest them for my crimes.
I wept, but I did not break.
On the third day of interrogation, after the interrogators had left me alone in my cell, exhausted and defeated by my refusal to provide information, I heard that voice again, clear and unmistakable in my spirit.
Deéjun, it is time to leave.
I laughed, actually laughed out loud in that dark cell.
Leave.
I was in the most secure facility in North Korea, in the basement of the Supreme Leader’s Palace.
My body broken, guards everywhere.
Leaving was impossible, but with God, I was learning.
Impossible was just a starting point.
They broke my body, but they couldn’t break my spirit.
Why? Because the one I serve is stronger than the one they fear.
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Section 7.
Climax.
The escape.
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What happened over the next 72 hours can only be described as a series of miracles.
Any one of these events could be dismissed as coincidence.
But when they happen in sequence, one after another, defying probability and human planning, you’re left with only one explanation.
God was moving.
It started that night.
I was lying on the concrete floor of my cell, my body aching from the interrogation, my mind cycling through prayers and scripture verses I had memorized.
The guards had left me alone after their latest session, and the basement level was quiet except for the occasional distant sound of other prisoners.
Then I heard it, the lock on my cell door clicking, not from someone outside opening it.
The sound came from inside the mechanism itself, as if invisible hands were working the tumblers.
I sat up, my broken fingers screaming in protest, and stared at the door.
The lock clicked again, and then the door swung open slightly, just an inch, just enough to show that it was no longer secured.
My heart pounded.
Was this a test? a trap to see if I would try to escape and thus provide justification for execution.
But I remembered the voice I had heard.
It is time to leave.
This was God’s doing.
I pushed the door open slowly, expecting alarms, guards rushing in, the escape attempt ending before it began.
Nothing.
The corridor outside my cell was empty and dimly lit.
I could see another cell door down the hallway, a stairwell beyond that.
And sitting at a desk near the stairwell where a guard should have been monitoring the cells was a guard slumped over deeply asleep.
He was snoring softly, his rifle leaning against the wall beside him.
This guard had been there every time they brought me out for interrogation.
He was young, dedicated, known for his vigilance.
There was no reason for him to be asleep, especially not this deeply.
Guards who fell asleep on duty faced severe punishment.
I moved as quietly as I could, my bare feet silent on the cold floor.
I passed within 3 ft of the sleeping guard.
It didn’t stir.
I reached the stairwell and began climbing, each step in agony with my damaged body.
Each moment expecting to hear shouting behind me.
Nothing.
I reached the ground floor level, emerging into a service corridor.
I recognized part of the palace’s support infrastructure, usually bustling with workers, even late at night.
Tonight it was deserted.
I moved toward what I knew was a rear exit used by kitchen staff.
Then the lights went out, not just in the corridor.
The entire palace was suddenly plunged into complete darkness.
No emergency lights activated.
No backup power kicked in.
This had never happened before.
The palace had multiple redundant power systems specifically to prevent this.
I stood in the darkness, my eyes slowly adjusting, and I heard chaos erupting in other parts of the palace.
Guards shouting, people running, confusion spreading.
The blackout was creating a perfect cover.
I felt my way along the wall toward where I knew the exit should be.
My hand found a door handle.
I pushed it open and felt cold night air on my face.
And standing in the shadows outside that door was a figure I recognized even in the darkness.
The truck driver.
The underground church member who had first made contact with me months ago.
Brother Dejun, he whispered urgently.
Christ sent me.
I was praying at home when I received a vision so clear I could not ignore it.
I saw this door this time.
You coming out.
I was told to be here with a vehicle.
We must go now.
He led me quickly across the palace grounds which were in chaos from the power failure.
Guards were running toward the main buildings focusing on protecting Kim Jong-un, not watching the perimeter.
We reached a service vehicle, a small truck used for deliveries, parked near the outer wall.
I climbed into the back and he covered me with canvas tarps.
“Stay silent,” he said.
“Trust God.
Pray without ceasing.
” The truck started and we began moving.
I prayed under my breath, feeling every bump in the road, hearing the sounds of the city around us.
We stopped at what I knew must be a checkpoint.
I heard guards outside, voices demanding papers.
Delivery from the central warehouse, the driver said.
I heard his papers being examined.
I heard footsteps approaching the truck.
I held my breath.
Open the back, a guard ordered.
The canvas was pulled aside.
Street light flooded in.
A guard’s face appeared, looking directly at the space where I was hidden.
I was barely concealed, visible to anyone who looked carefully.
The guard stared for a long moment.
I stopped breathing.
And then he dropped the canvas and called out, “It’s fine.
Move along.
The truck started again.
We had passed through.
This happened three more times.
Checkpoints, inspections, guards looking right at me and seeing nothing.
Like the Holy Spirit was blinding their eyes, making me invisible to those who hunted me.
Finally, after what felt like hours, but was probably less than one, we stopped in a residential district far from the palace.
The driver led me into an apartment building and up several flights of stairs.
He knocked on a door using a familiar pattern and it opened to reveal Mrs.
Choy, the elderly woman from the underground church.
“He’s here,” the driver said simply.
“Just as God promised.
” Inside the apartment, a dozen church members were praying.
They had been interceding all night, they explained.
Hours earlier, several of them had received the same impression.
“Brother Dejon needs help.
Go to your stations.
Be ready.
God is moving.
” They tended to my wounds, gave me food and water.
let me rest.
But we all knew I couldn’t stay.
By morning, the palace would have discovered my escape.
A manhunt would begin.
Every guard, every informant, every surveillance system would be looking for me.
We’re going to get you to the border, Pastor Sang said.
He had arrived at the apartment shortly after me, having been summoned by one of the believers.
We have a network, safe houses across the country, believers willing to hide you, transport you, guide you.
It will take several days and it will be dangerous but we believe God will protect you.
Why? I asked.
Why would you risk so much for me? Pastor Sang smiled.
Because you did what few ever have the courage to do.
You spoke truth to power.
You delivered God’s warning to the most dangerous man in our nation.
And your testimony, when it reaches the outside world, will encourage thousands of believers here in North Korea and millions more beyond our borders.
You must survive to tell this story.
Over the next 3 days, I was moved from safe house to safe house, traveling hidden in trucks, carts, even once in a coffin, being transported for a funeral.
Each believer who helped me risked execution, not just for themselves, but for their families.
Each one did it willingly, joyfully, counting the cost, and deciding that advancing the gospel was worth any price.
I saw the underground church’s network in action, more extensive and organized than I had imagined.
Farmers who hid believers in their grain stores.
Factory workers who smuggled people in supply shipments.
Even a few lower level government officials who were secret Christians using their positions to help.
We moved at night, traveling north toward the Chinese border.
At one point, we were nearly discovered when a military patrol set up a surprise checkpoint on a road we were using.
The truck I was hiding in was pulled over and soldiers began a thorough search.
I prayed silently, asking God for protection, not just for me, but for the family hiding me, an elderly couple and their adult son, farmers who had been believers for decades, who had already lost one child to the regime for being Christian.
The soldier opened the compartment where I was hidden, a false bottom under bags of rice.
He shone his flashlight directly on my face.
Our eyes met and then he closed the compartment and called out, “Nothing here.
You can go.
” I never learned if that soldier was a secret believer who recognized me or if God simply closed his eyes to my presence.
Either way, it was a miracle.
Finally, we reached the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China.
It was late March, still cold, the river partially frozen but treacherous.
My guide, a man named Mr.
Park, who had crossed this river dozens of times helping defectors, explained the plan.
The ice is thin in the middle.
The patrols are heavy.
We cross at midnight when the shift change happens.
There’s a 15-minute window when coverage is weakest.
You must move quickly and silently.
If the ice breaks, you swim.
If the patrols see us, you run.
And if I tell you to leave me and save yourself, you obey.
Understood? I nodded.
We prayed together, asking God for safe passage, for blind guards, for strong ice, for arrival and freedom.
At midnight, we moved.
The riverbank was dark, the water ahead reflecting starlight.
We could see the lights of Chinese territory on the far side, so close yet impossibly distant.
We stepped onto the ice.
It groaned under our weight, but held.
We moved carefully, testing each step, trying to balance speed with caution.
I could see patrol towers in the distance.
Search lights sweeping the river periodically.
Halfway across, a search light began turning in our direction.
Down, Mr.