https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/a8ea63ea-42c3-459b-8bfe-9ee6c24220ec A member of the congregation at Bongsu Church in Pyongyang speaking about her experience during the US carpet bombing of the DPRK and its impact on her life as a Christian from Dai Sil Kim-Gibson’s "People Are the Sky" (2014). (Clip and description from Extremely Rare DPRK videos on YouTube) Transcript: Kim-Gibson: "I also attended church from the time when I was little." ... Interviewee: "There were many churches in Pyongyang. Actually, because there were so many churches, we called it the second Jerusalem." Kim-Gibson: "Yes, I know. My mother went to Seo-Moon High School here, which is the Christian school." Interviewee: "I also attended Seo-Moon High School." Kim-Gibson: [in voice-over narration] "I couldn't believe this. Here was a woman who went to the same school as my mother. I felt connected to this woman instantly." ... Interviewee: "After we were liberated, when the Japanese were defeated, what I remember is that all the Japanese went home. Because after we were liberated, the People's Government was established. A lot of churches were born freely. After that we lived in peace. We were able to live in peace for the next five years." Kim-Gibson: "Until the war broke out." Interviewee: "I believe those five years were our golden age. We attended church every week after school. But soon there was no church left because of the heavy bombing. Even during the worship service, the bombing killed a lot of people. When I think of that time, even now tears gather in my eyes. So many of my friends died. Then we heard that the U.S. was planning to drop the atomic bomb. We were threatened that we would all die and must go south. Because of that threat, a lot of my people headed south. Americans shot those people and killed them. So they killed, largely by bombing but also by shooting. They bombed us even during worship service. No churches were left in Pyongyang! Before the war, we thought Americans were angels from God, but after the war, we hated them." YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfeY6bVQ1nA Uploaded by Extremely Rare DPRK Videos, Aug 1, 2022. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:22:13 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/a8ea63ea-42c3-459b-8bfe-9ee6c24220ec All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.