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November 19, 2000
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New Church Initiative Will Focus on North Korea

Koyang City, Kyonggi-do, Korea.     Seventh-day 
Adventist Church leaders in the Northern Asia-Pacific 
region have established a new committee that will 
consider ways to increase the church's presence in the 
communist country of North Korea.

At the committee's first meeting on November 6, 
members laid the groundwork for increased Adventist 
Church evangelistic outreach in North Korea.  There 
are no firm statistics available for church membership 
in North Korea, but latest estimates place the figure at 
some 900, out of a population of 22.2 million.