A toddler is said to have been sentenced to life in a North Korean prison camp after his parents were discovered with a Bible in their home.
The shocking tale was revealed by the US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report.
It claimed the two-year-old and his entire family were locked up for their religious beliefs.
Defectors from North Korea have revealed that the state promotes an ideology called “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism,” which involves intense study of the teachings of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un.
While this ideology does not explicitly declare the leaders as gods, they are described as exceptional beings capable of supernatural abilities.
Several other cases of North Koreans being killed for being Christian were also included in the report, including the firing squad execution of a woman and her grandchild in 2011.