North Korea is no place for evangelical Christians today but peel back the decades and you’ll find Christianity at the heart of the Kim family’s rise to power. Journalist Jonathan Cheng has spent a decade and a half piecing together the crucial role evangelical Christianity played in North Korea’s Kim dynasty — especially in the upbringing of Kim Il-sung, the first leader of the country who's seen today as an immortal and sacred figure. Cheng's book is called Korean Messiah.
Jonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, and was previously the Korea bureau chief, running coverage of the Korean peninsula, including politics and society in both North and South Korea. He has traveled to North Korea twice.
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