SEOUL/PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea's feared National Security Agency (NSA) has stepped up efforts to unmask the growing number of underground Christians in the isolated Communist state by setting up "fake churches", a well-informed dissident group said in comments monitored by BosNewsLife Wednesday, December 26.

SEOUL/PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Friday, November 9, about the whereabouts of a group of detained Christians in North Korea who authorities have described as "foreign spies" and "native citizens working for a foreign intelligence service," investigators told BosNewsLife.

SEOUL/MANILA (BosNewsLife)-- South Korea's government said Sunday, September 16, it will send a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan to determine whether it is safe to allow about 100 South Korean residents to continue to stay in the war-ravaged nation, a major news paper reported.

KABUL/SEOUL (BosNewsLife)-- Afghan security forces killed a Taliban commander believed to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean Christian aid workers, some of whom acknowledged Tuesday, September 4, they had "secretly" prayed amid death threats for refusing to convert to Islam.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (BosNewsLife)-- Nineteen South Korean Christians arrived home Sunday, September 2, after 45 days of Taliban captivity in Afghanistan, an ordeal that raised questions about their country's involvement in missionary work in dangerous places.