Ri Hyon Ok, Martyr?

A report that "North Korea publicly executed a Christian woman last month for distributing the Bible" — Activists claim Christian executed in NKorea. "Ri Hyon Ok, 33, was also accused of spying for South Korea and the United States and organizing dissidents."

"It is virtually impossible to verify such reports about secretive North Korea," reminds the report, but that "North Korea appears to have judged that Christian forces could pose a threat to its regime," as one activist suggested, is no surprise; that's a story as old as Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.