Will you pray for them? “Of the estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people living under horrific conditions in North Korean prisons,” says Dykstra, “there are 50,000 to 70,000 Christians. Also, many North Koreans are chronically malnourished and unemployed.” He urges fellow believers to pray for North Korea’s courageous Christians. “We know that Jesus will not leave them, nor forsake them.” Nor can we.