North Korea -- Axis of Evil?

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U.S. lifts sanctions against North Korea after nuclear reactor cooling tower destroyed. Meanwhile, millions of North Koreans starve to death.

Filled with dramatic scenes based on real-life tragedies that North Koreans face daily, I'll Cross the River addresses issues such as religious persecution and life under the rule of a communist dictator who is deceiving and starving the population to death.

C. Hope Flinchbaugh

Based on true and current circumstances, C. Hope Flinchbaugh, the author, has sat with North Korean defectors at Congressional hearings in Washington, DC, as they wept when telling the horrors of starvation, deception, and brainwashing inside North Korea.

I'll Cross the River is brutally honest about how North Korea is home to countless children whose shiny black hair is brittle and reddish from malnutrition, children who eat rats to survive. Many children beg for money in China only to risk their lives by returning to North Korea where they give the money to their mothers-women who are too weak to cross the border themselves due to starvation's scourge.

The novel's protagonist, Mei Lin, has a heart-pounding dream about a baby crying out to her from murky waters. Who is this baby, and where is he? Meanwhile, widow Young Soon, is determined to flee North Korea with her young son and baby to find food and safety in neighboring China.across the river.

Cover of I'll Cross the River

Above the guardhouse that looms above the river bank is a great red dragon. Its tail sweeps back and forth across the river and smaller evil-looking creatures scurry beneath it. Far above the red dragon, Heaven's warriors dressed in white charge courageously. The dragon seems distracted, but not defeated.

No other fiction book on the market addresses the issue of human rights in North Korea. This book reveals the intense human suffering and spiritual warfare within a country that runs modern-day Auschwitz-style prison camps. Exposed are the brainwashing methods of a dictator who doesn't care that his citizens are suffering and dying.

Christians who are currently sheltering orphans fortunate enough to make it across the North Korean border into China have been interviewed and their stories are woven into the book, as well as those who have been imprisoned for offering safe houses for North Korean refugees.

"I'll Cross the River touches my heart-I am so impressed. I believe this book represents the situation of North Korea exactly so people can understand the most closed country and the lives of North Koreans citizens." -Jung Min Noh, Broadcaster/Reporter Korean Service, Radio Free Asia (RFA).

Note: Author C. Hope Flinchbaugh is actively involved in the Defense Forum Foundation and the North Korea Freedom Coalition, organizations that sponsor a number of projects to help promote North Korean human rights. She has participated in prayer meetings where American and Korean Christians gather around defectors to pray over them before they testify in Congressional hearings about the atrocities occurring in North Korea. She has written stories for Focus on the Family, Charisma and Christian Life magazines about children who escape into China. "This story is burning in my heart. I'm honored to tell it. I'm compelled to share it and the time is now."