[🧩] The Story of Being Registered as a Person of Interest by Chinese Public Security

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The most important role I currently have at church is broadcasting worship services for undocumented North Korean defectors hiding inside China, and building a secure messenger so they can use it smoothly.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223972287268
• Naver published at: 2025/08/16 13:21 KST
• Original category: Daily Life

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The most important role I currently have at church is broadcasting worship services for undocumented North Korean defectors hiding inside China, and building a secure messenger so they can use it smoothly.

But in China, all Christian activity outside of “Christianity officially recognized by Chinese authorities” is considered illegal.

In other words, if they are caught by public security while secretly doing Christian activities, they are exposed to the risk of being forcibly repatriated to North Korea immediately.

And after repatriation, they are dragged to political prison camps and treated worse than livestock.

On top of that, many female North Korean defectors are trafficked after escaping, sold to rural areas, and live secretly without identity cards.

On top of that, China requires identity cards for every means of transportation, and CCTV is spread across every street, so they cannot even leave and move away from those rural areas.

However, Chinese public security officers who have already identified the defectors’ residences are keeping it quiet and not repatriating them.

But from time to time, low-quality trash public security bastards use that to threaten them and extort money.

If I know all of these facts, is it not an unavoidable calling that I have to help them?

But, believe it or not. From one source, I heard that I had been registered as a person of interest by Chinese public security.

It is truly ridiculous. I had been prepared for it, but now I really have become someone who needs to be careful about traveling to China alone. You never know when public security might abduct me.

Today is August 15, Liberation Day. I think today was a day when, however faintly, I could feel what the hearts of those who gave their lives for the independence movement might have been like.

If I stay stuck in Korea, watch my body, and plan not to even look toward China, there probably will not be much danger.

But it is strange. Being openly registered as a person of interest like this makes me angry and makes my blood boil.

Rather, out of defiance, I feel an even stronger desire to learn Chinese, go to China, and serve even more for those fighting a lonely battle there.

Even I wonder if I am crazy. It might be youthful recklessness. Maybe I want to cosplay as an independence activist.

Anyway, while listening to the testimony of a North Korean defector sister at today’s joint prayer meeting, it was a day when I felt an even greater sense of responsibility for the mission I am doing.

If there is any role where lacking as I am, I can be of help, I will gladly serve and minister for them.