I pray to God. May those who are still fighting for religious freedom around the world come here 🙏✨️
And send us someone who has the power to help them 🙏✨️
Dear Senator Jim Risch @SenatorRisch
Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
I am an ordinary Korean citizen deeply troubled by the worsening persecution of Christians around the world and by the growing threats to religious freedom in my own country. Because this issue is urgent, I am posting this open letter on X.
Religious freedom is the foundation of human dignity and a vital pillar of American national security. With full confidence in your long-standing leadership on behalf of persecuted believers, I appeal to you today.
More than seven months have passed since President Trump nominated Mark Walker as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom on April 10, 2025, yet no confirmation hearing has been scheduled. This vacancy is inflicting real suffering on millions of persecuted Christians in China, the Korean Peninsula, Nigeria, and beyond. @RepMarkWalker
The Daily Caller (Nov 20) reported that the nomination remains stalled within Senate Republican ranks.
Former Ambassador Sam Brownback warned that such delays “greatly slow advancements in human rights, democracy, and national security” and gave Mark Walker his full endorsement.
On October 29, 2025, Dr. Ben Carson and a bipartisan coalition of faith leaders sent you a direct letter asking that Mark Walker be prioritized at the committee’s next hearing.
(https://t.co/qePw6R2bKJ)
On the same day, The Washington Times revealed that the Chinese Communist Party arrested 18 leaders of the underground Zion Church and nearly 30 pastors and staff across 10 cities in the past month alone.
Ambassador Brownback stated that Beijing “fears religious freedom more than American military power” and continues demolishing churches, removing crosses, banning Christian apps, and, starting in 2025, restricting all sermons to government-approved online formats.
(https://t.co/W3AQDXSJ3K)
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is equally grave:
North Korea remains the world’s worst persecutor of Christians in 2025, with up to 70,000 believers suffering torture, forced labor, and execution in political prison camps and an estimated 400,000 underground believers risking their lives daily.
In South Korea, conservative pastors—including Pastor Son Hyun-bo of Busan Segyeoro Church, arrested in September 2025—face intensifying investigations and raids on churches and pastors’ homes under election-law and other pretexts.
Christians being arrested in China, investigated in South Korea, and executed in North Korea have now waited more than 7 months for the United States to confirm a strong advocate like Mark Walker who can speak for them on the global stage.
Dear Senator Risch, I respectfully and urgently ask you to schedule Mark Walker’s confirmation hearing at the earliest possible date. Your decision is far more than procedural—it is a lifeline to countless believers suffering for their faith worldwide.
Thank you for your leadership and for standing with the persecuted.
With deepest respect and gratitude,
A Korean citizen who cherishes religious freedom
@SecRubio@RepMarkWalker@NICKIMINAJ@USAmbUN@DCSas@USCIRF@ADFIntl@mikepompeo@HARRISFAULKNER@alexbruesewitz@bmarcois
As a proud Korean American, it was an honor to meet with President Yoon and I am proud to have helped bring him to speak in Congress. South Korea is one of our most important allies, and last week was a critical step in strengthening relations.
https://t.co/L5OQ87aiWy
It’s great to see that South Korean conservative politicians have recently visited the United States and are actively engaging in cooperation. Thank you for welcoming them.
I hope this becomes an opportunity for Korea and the United States to communicate and coordinate more closely on policy matters.
I deeply appreciate Chairman Jang and Supreme Council Kim for their unwavering commitment to protecting South Korea's liberal democracy and standing as a firm line of defense against communization. I sincerely hope this visit strengthens the ROK-US alliance and brings back meaningful results that ensure our national security and shared values.
And always deeply thank you attention to Korea
They are among the few politicians currently trying to prevent the communization of South Korea. While many people have been disappointed in them, there are also many who still hold hope for them.
I hope they cooperate with the United States and bring back positive results when they return home.
My AFPI colleague Piero Tozzi and I had a great meeting this week with South Korean People Power Party (PPP) Chairman Dong-hyeok Jang (second from right) and Supreme Council Member Minsoo Kimto discuss US-South Korea relations.
@A1Policy
S. Korea is currently in chaos. Because the old enemy of communization. I hope Jang & Kim's visit will be meaningful to end this confusion.
Supporting Jang and Kim, I hope that through this meeting, the alliance between the two countries will move in a more mutually beneficial direction than it is now. 🇰🇷❤️🇺🇲
Many Americans still don’t understand why President Yoon made an emergency call to restore order.
The media called it martial law, and now everyone believes it was martial law.
📍But what is the truth? It was not martial law.
📌It was an emergency measure to prevent total collapse under CCP control.
No one was hurt.
No one was killed.
No one lost their freedom.
The false narrative of the media was created by the CCP forces trying to overthrow democracy.
평화는 말로 지키는 것이 아닙니다. 강력한 힘과 철통같은 안보태세야말로 나라와 국민을 지키고, 이 땅에 진정한 평화를 이룩하는 길입니다. 정부는 북한의 도발과 위협에 맞서, 대한민국의 자유민주주의와 우리 국민의 삶을 든든하게 지키겠습니다.
https://t.co/00EUirFMZM