How Long Should We Wait?

I have said this before but I’ll repeat it here again because I’m upset with God, yes, God. He has not been keeping his promise to us. He said vengeance is His and He will repay. But He has not kept his promise with regard to Kim Jong-il, the North Korean dictator.

(Before I go any further, I must apologize to my friends for writing so much about North Korea which is, I’m sure, one of the most distressing and uninteresting topics to think about. In the absence of any other serious events, however, one is forced more or less to discuss whatever it is that is developing in that part of the world).

Not counting his dad’s crime of killing more than 2 million people half a century ago, Kim Jong-il has been killing hundreds of innocent South Koreans, not to mention millions of his own people in the North, for decades. And yet, God has not punished him. I wonder what is holding Him up. Don’t they say that justice delayed is justice denied?

Sure, God moves in mysterious ways as they say. So, He has his own way of working on vengeance. But today, the murderous North Korean leader is not only alive and kicking but also continuing to play god himself, killing people at will and getting away with the murders.

That’s not all. Due, no doubt, to years of debauchery and decadence, he is reportedly suffering from kidney disease and has had a stroke and yet, he has “miraculously” recovered from them. Instead of doing soul searching and repenting his crimes, he still seems to be enjoying torturing and killing people.

In the latest adventure, he is strongly suspected of ordering his navy to blow up and sink a South Korean patrol ship in South Korean territorial waters in the West (Yellow) Sea nearly two months ago. Some 46 South Korean sailors perished in the unprovoked attack.

Fearing retribution from the South, he is said to have visited China in order, as some press reports speculate, to discuss ways to counter possible action from the South with Chinese leaders, his big brothers and protectors.

It is true that everything that the North Korean dictator does should necessarily be veiled in secrecy. So, some said he visited China in order to beg for more food aid for his starving nation while others were still naïve enough to hope that he was trying to discuss with the Chinese the possibility of returning to the Six-Party Talks on the denuclearization of his country. (When will they learn to regard Kim Jong-il and his followers simply as a bunch of gangsters whom they should never trust?)

From my perspective, I would say that he visited China to beg for more financial and food assistance in exchange for the right to use the strategic port of Chungjin in northeastern North Korea. There have been reports that China was trying to extend its power and influence all over Asia including the East Sea (which is known in some quarters as the Sea of Japan).

Or, maybe Kim Jong-il wants to invite Chinese tourists to visit the scenic Kumgangsan (Diamond Mountains) resort, which his regime has recently seized from the South. South Korea’s industrial group, Hyundai, and some others had built the resort in the North at the cost of tens of billions of won, but Kim Jong-il and his henchmen recently arbitrarily seized control of its operation.

Whatever the reason for his visit to China, one thing is sure: he is up to no good for the majority of his countrymen and women, not to mention, the entire Korean people. Yet, no one, indeed, no country in the rest of the world, seems to be able to do anything about him. That precisely is why, I, for one, am impatient while waiting—interminably—for God to mete out his punishment to Kim Jong-il if only to prevent him from killing any more innocent people. After all, he is one of the greatest sinners in the later half of the 20th century and beyond and there should not be any more delay in bringing him to face divine judgment for his crimes.
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