![]() ![]() ![]() Lee to investigate the incident, in which the two have mysteriously survived.Ĭhang intends to use the incident for purposes of political propaganda by making the 12 clergymen into heroic martyrs whose execution by North Korean communists exemplify the regime’s ruthless persecution of Christians. Chang, chief of Army intelligence, orders the narrator Capt. Han, who is younger and becomes insane due to his mental shock over the horrible incident.Īfter the South Korean troops occupy Pyongyang, Col. Shin, who is older and psychologically tormented after witnessing the execution of his colleagues, and Rev. ![]() Among them, 12 are executed and two released: Rev. Fourteen Christian ministers are arrested by the North Korean communists. The story of is set in Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea, during the early stages of the Korean War. “The Martyred,” too, was a thought-provoking novel that resonates with Camus’s nihilistic existentialism and saturated with a philosophical rigor comparable to Dostoevsky. At the time, I was intrigued and mesmerized by the novels of Albert Camus and Fyodor Dostoevsky. When I first came across Richard Kim’s “The Martyred” in 1967, I was an intellectually adventurous and emotionally vulnerable college freshman. ![]()
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