남북분단 70년과 북한선교의 방향성 모색

The Year of 2015 is a significant moment in Korean history that commemorates the 70th year of Korean liberation from Japanese colonialism, as well as the establishment of both South and North government. In reflecting this significant moment, this article envisions to a radical changes in future perspective in South-North relation, with particular interests in Christianity and its activities. Since the power shift from the Japanese colonial rule to the ideology of communism in the North, all the religious activities were prohibited and prayers were silenced since then. However, there has been a policy shift that the north government has recognized a Christian church (Bongsoo Church) in 1988, and this signals the significant change projecting some hopeful signs for Christianity in the North since then. This article suggests that as for the missionary activities towards the North, there ought to be a critical reflection on South Korean churches’ missionary policy and a radical shift in mission prospect that considers the North as the subject of missions, not as the object of South Korean churches’ expansion, and in doing so, the South Korean church would assume its role as a supporter and cooperator of Missio Dei in the North. It also suggests that Christian missions must be preceded from the South-North Korean Christian mission perspectives, not the South Korean church led missions only, with the critical reflection on the South Korean church, and move toward the perspective of Korean peninsula as a whole. This radical shift in mission perspective would envision and constitute a new Korean Christianity in the new unified Korea, in the future.