Speaking to NK News in a conference room at Seoul’s foreign press center over coffee and sandwiches, the Chancellor of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Park Chan-mo, is remarkably chipper for a man with two colleagues in a North Korean jail cell.
Then again, running an openly Christian university in one of the world’s most anti-Christian countries requires a positive outlook on life - especially given the circumstances.
Speaking to NK News in a conference room at Seoul’s foreign press center over coffee and sandwiches, the Chancellor of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Park Chan-mo, is remarkably chipper for a man with two colleagues in a North Korean jail cell.
Then again, running an openly Christian university in one of the world’s most anti-Christian countries requires a positive outlook on life - especially given the circumstances.
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