Radio and Media Focus Group Overview
KRIN has a variety of partners engaging in Radio and Media ministry to North Korea.
One of these ministries, has been broadcasting since 1993, their radio ministry has been broadcasting the Word of God and gospel-centered messages for the underground churches in North Korea and North East Asia by transmitting shortwave frequency through a third-country route. Since 2007, radio has been broadcasting through a fixed shortwave frequency and AM frequency.
Broadcasting has been conducted to connect an estimated 200,000 North Korean underground church members, citizens of all levels of hierarchy, and North Koreans scattered in surrounding countries into one network. The radio ministry is operated to recover the nation’s sense of belonging, and to establish spiritual and cultural infrastructure of the new nation through a Christian worldview.
Another ministry has been broadcasting discipleship material into North Korea via both Shortwave as well as FM broadcasts, for about 5 years now.
The Jesus Film Project (JFP) has produced the Jesus Film in two North Korean dialects. This material is available to KRIN partners. JFP is actively creating additional audio and video media, to aid in evangelism and church planting, as well as to help introduce the concepts of trauma recovery, etc. The Jesus Film has also been divided into small 2-5 minute segments, for evangelists to show on their phones, when they encounter North Koreans. It is hoped that such tools can aid evangelists in starting spiritual conversations with North Koreans.
KRIN partner, LUMO has also created the LUMO gospels in a North Korean dialect as well.
KRIN partners are also developing small handheld, solar-powered devices, with North Korean audio Bibles, and discovery Bible stories. These players are hoped to be useful for North Koreans to hear the Bible in their own dialect, as well as to facilitate the starting on new house churches. These devices can be used among the NK Diaspora and Defectors, wherever they live. There are 2.5 Million people of North Korean descent living outside North Korea, in various places.
There are many more tools being developed and deployed among the North Korean people. In the event that North Korea opens, there will also be a need for mobile satellite internet stations to be created around the country to aid in the dissemination of communication with the outside world. As well, there is a need to