SEOUL – Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American currently being detained by the North Korean government, is a trained missionary who was using his China-based tour company as a platform to bring missionaries into North Korea, NK News can confirm.
Bae was initially sent to China by the evangelical missionary organization “Youth With a Mission” (YWAM) in 2006, according to a post on the website of a Korean Presbyterian Church in St. Louis that supports his mission in China.
SEOUL – Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American currently being detained by the North Korean government, is a trained missionary who was using his China-based tour company as a platform to bring missionaries into North Korea, NK News can confirm.
Bae was initially sent to China by the evangelical missionary organization “Youth With a Mission” (YWAM) in 2006, according to a post on the website of a Korean Presbyterian Church in St. Louis that supports his mission in China.
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