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Viewing cable 07SEOUL489, PLANS TO COMMEMORATE THE "PYONGYANG REVIVAL" IN

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07SEOUL489 2007-02-20 04:15 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Seoul
VZCZCXYZ0002
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHUL #0489/01 0510415
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 200415Z FEB 07
FM AMEMBASSY SEOUL
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2948
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 2064
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 2166
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 7821
RHMFISS/COMUSKOREA J5 SEOUL KOR
RHMFISS/COMUSKOREA J2 SEOUL KOR
RHMFISS/COMUSKOREA SCJS SEOUL KOR
RHHMUNA/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC//OSD/ISA/EAP//
UNCLAS SEOUL 000489 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KN KS PHUM SCUL PREL
SUBJECT: PLANS TO COMMEMORATE THE "PYONGYANG REVIVAL" IN 
OCTOBER 
 
SUMMARY 
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1. (SBU) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a large 
number of Protestant Americans came to Korea and found a 
reception.  By 1907, Jang Dae Hyun Church in Pyongyang became 
the center of what became known as the "Pyongyang Revival," 
earned it the moniker "Jerusalem of the East."  To 
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Revival, a group of 
South Korean Presbyterian pastors is planning a large-scale 
event in October in Pyongyang to rekindle the previous 
century's religious awakening, but it is not clear that the 
DPRK will allow it.  END SUMMARY. 
 
REKINDLING THE PYONGYANG RELIGIOUS SPIRIT 
----------------------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) A preparatory committee of South Korean Presbyterian 
pastors, most of whom belong to the International Love 
Foundation (ILF), is spearheading organizational efforts to 
send 3,000 South Koreans to a revival ceremony in Pyongyang. 
Rev. Eom Shin-hyeong, President of the Council of 
Presbyterian Churches and chair of the preparatory committee, 
told us that he was coordinating the event with North Korea's 
Chosun Christian Federation (CCF).  Rev. Shin and others went 
to Kaesong on December 22 to meet with the CCF, and also to 
Pyongyang on January 13-16.  The pastors reported that, 
despite earlier refusals, the DPRK relented at the last 
minute and allowed the group to visit the site of the old 
Jang Dae Hyun Church.  They also participated in a service at 
the DPRK-recognized Chilguk Church. 
 
3. (SBU) The pastors were unable to speak to any individual 
worshippers and left unsure if the North Koreans were truly 
there for religion or if they had been told to attend by the 
DPRK, although they commented that numerous "Amens" were 
heard from the congregation during Shin's sermon at 
Chilguk.  The pastors and CCF agreed that 300 to 500 South 
Koreans would be invited to a preliminary joint service in 
March, and 3,000 South Koreans would be invited to join 
15,000 North Koreans for a joint service at Chung Ju-yong 
stadium in Pyongyang in October.  The pastors asked CCF to 
invite ethnic Koreans from other nations, including 
Korean-Americans, but CCF did not respond.  ILF said that it 
planned to publicize the trip in late February, expressing 
interest in having American pastors participate in the 
revival. 
 
4. (SBU) Many South Korean Christian organizations are 
spurning this event.  For example, neither the Christian 
Council of Korea (CCK) nor the National Council of Christian 
Churches in Korea (NCCK), two of the biggest religious 
organizations in the ROK, will officially participate, though 
they acknowledged that some of their member churches would. 
The CCK will not endorse the event, consistent with its 
refusal to recognize the DPRK.  Our CCK contact said the 
revival was a chance for the DPRK to fill a stadium in a 
forced public display of religious "freedom," and a chance 
for the ROKG to claim that reunification efforts were on 
track, when in reality both claims were propagand.  The NCCK, 
though it has a more progressive leadership, has decided not 
to participate because it 
believes that events would be small-scale, void of religious 
freedom, and not in the spirit of 1907. 
 
PRICE TAG: ONE CARDIAC CENTER 
----------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) Lee Sung-won, Director of the Inter-Korean Social 
and Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation Team at the ROK 
Ministry of Unification, said that funding problems may 
undercut plans for an event in Pyongyang.  According to Lee, 
the organizing committee, during their January visit to the 
DPRK, promised to build a cardiac hospital, an attractive 
offer to aging DPRK elites.  On their return to 
Seoul, the pastors asked the Ministry of Unification to fund 
the hospital.  The Ministry refused on the basis that it had 
not been consulted in advance and that it could not spend so 
much via one religious group.  Lee said that he believes the 
organizers are currently trying to convince 
American Mega-Pastor Rick Warren to be the Revival's Keynote 
Speaker and lead fundraiser. 
 
COMMENT 
 
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6.  (SBU) Like so many initiatives involving North Korea, the 
Pyongyang Revival is also stalled because of the need for 
payoffs to the DPRK leadership.  In this case it is a cardiac 
center.  Even if such an event were to take place, it would 
likely be a staged event for foreign donors rather than a 
religious event for domestic worshipers.  We think it will be 
some time before Pyongyang is again known as the Jerusalem of 
the East. 
VERSHBOW