North Korea’s food shortage has reached a crisis point because the agricultural sector was affected by torrential rains and the coldest winter in 60 years. Six Million are living “on the knife edge” and will go hungry without food aid according to the World Food Program. Please pray for the $224 million needed—that it will be supplied quickly and get to those who are suffering want.

Prayer Initiative for North Korea (PINK), September 19-22, 2011

Prayer Initiative of the Organizers of Several Korean Prayer Organizations Supported by the IPC:
1.    We want to bring together about 300 local and 100 foreign prayer leaders from all over the world to pray for critical breakthroughs regarding the issues regarding North Korea and for its liberation.
2.    We also want PINK 2011 to be a stepping-stone for the World Prayer Assembly, May 14-18, 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia—more information available at www.wpa2012.org.
2.1    We aim to download strategies from the heaven for the global prayer issues of this generation: Islamization of the globe, the homosexual agenda, increasing natural disasters, restructuring of the global economy, etc.
2.2    We want to connect various prayer networks all over the world to be united in focused prayers for these things.
3.    We expect that nation-wide prayer networks can emerge in Japan, China, and Korea, and that these networks can be joined with each other to form an East Asian prayer network.

A Call to Prayer for the Liberation of North Korea
Korea is the only divided country n the world and many people in North Korea are dying in hunger and oppression every day. Several million have already perished under the regimes of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The appalling human tragedies we see there have come about through the spirit of communism and idolization of egocentric leaders. The current rising prosperity of South Korea is a huge contrast, much of it certainly resulting from the influence of the gospel and its vigorous prayer movement.

To bring down the barriers around North Korea and set the people there free, we believe that God is calling the nations, including those who delivered His gospel to South Korea in the past, to pray together for the decisive breakthroughs we need to see in the North. Pyongyang was once called the “Jerusalem of the East” during the 1907 revival that swept Korea, so we believe that as we pray, the Lord is able to transform and restore North Korea to its former spiritual greatness.

We do not believe that this is only a matter of North Korea itself. As this most oppressive national situation on earth is death with by bringing down barriers and setting the people free, we will also see the ancient doors in the other nations open, and the King of Glory come in to reign. ‘Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.’ (Psalm 24:7).

The current situation in North Korea cries out for an international prayer initiative like this. These are some of the ways it has been described in the media and by those who have been there as eyewitnesses:
•    Largest prison camp in the world
•    Worst human rights violating country
•    Worst persecutor of Christians
•    4 million North Koreans have died of starvation since 1995
•    Economy “literally collapsed, operating at about 20%” due to adherence to juche central planning failures
•    Famine again stalks the land
•    500,000 fled to China for survival, mostly women and 80% of them raped and sexually trafficked
•    1 million killed in concentration camps with cruel brutality
•    North Korean people “the most isolated, most persecuted, and most suffering”
Please pray with us for what we believe will be a history-shaping initiative for the last divided nation. God brought down the Berlin Wall, uniting East with West Germany, after a concerted strategic prayer initiative. He also united black and white South Africa on the verge of Bloody civil war as His people prayed so a new nation was born. He can do the same for Korea, liberating the North and reintegrating it peacefully with the South. Let’s believe Him for this to happen!

Prayer Concerns for PINK:
1.    Please pray for PINK 2011 and its effective organization.
2.    Pray for the right ministry leaders and intercessors to take part from within South Korea and around the world.
3.    Ask the Lord to unite us and give us His strategies for the issues of our time and for breakthrough in North Korea.
4.    Prayer for a documentary prayer video on North Korea being prepared now that will help rally prayer around the world.
5.    Pray for the formation of a regional prayer network for NE Asia.

Thank for your support for this initiative and for His healing and transformation of the Korean peninsula!

For more information about the PINK initiative, please contact Youngchae Song of All Nationals Intercessors, one of the sponsoring bodies in the new national prayer network that is organizing this prayer initiative. His email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..