Published: April 12 2010 17:49
By Christian Oliver in Seoul
Inspiration comes easily to South Korea’s Buddhist abbots.
The Venerable Bop Ta decided in the late 1990s he should build noodle factories in North Korea, and not just because of starvation in the secular dictatorship. The factories could increase the role of Buddhism in inter-Korean rapprochement, clawing back ground from tenacious South Korean Protestant missionaries, who are eagerly seeking North Korean converts.
Religion is officially banned in North Korea and anyone who believes in any religion must practise in the utmost secrecy…
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