Esther, whose name has been changed for safety reasons, was sentenced to a few months detention in a small North Korean labour camp after she was arrested for escaping to China.
She told religious freedom charity Open Doors that she and the other inmates were “treated like animals” as there were 40 inmates packed in a two-by-two cell.
However, her journey to Christianity began when she met a Christian woman in the cell who seemed to have peace “in a hellish situation”.
Esther said: “At one point, I gave her a little push and asked her ‘Hey, what’s going on with you? Why are you so calm?’
“She answered ‘When I was in China, God treated me like a princess’.
“I looked at her. She was a fragile, old lady. Why would anyone treat her like a princess? I mocked her, ‘Okay, I want to be a princess too’.
‘Alright,’ she said. ‘Just pray like me’. I played along. So she went ‘Thank you, God, for everything. Do what you wish. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen’.”
Esther said thanking God for being in prison seemed a bizarre thing to do but she did it anyway and asked God to release her.
Following the prayer, the woman nicknamed God’s Princess shared the gospel with everyone in the prison cell and said she had faith that they would all be released. Soon God’s Princess was allowed to leave.
Three days after Esther prayed, the detention centre also allowed her to leave with the promise…
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