Kim Jong UN bans Christmas, but activists send gifts of Bibles, food and messages of hope
Fox News
Amid Christmas being banned in North Korea, activists are gathering to send bottles with messages of hope, faith and freedom to those in the country under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un.
"We should be doing everything we can to get information into North Korea by land, by sea and by air," says Suzanne Scholte, chair of the Washington, D.C.-based North Korean Freedom Coalition which sponsored the messages. The operation is part of the group's "Operation Truth," which Scholte says, "is modeled after the Berlin Airlift, to get critical help to the starving people of North Korea."
The group has conducted 17 launches of the bottles. Each bottle also contains enough rice to feed a family of four for a week, as well as a Bible on a flash drive and a U.S. $1 bill. Among those launching the messages were nine North Korean escapees who want to bring freedom to their homeland.