Christina Park

Inside a stark detention facility in Kyiv, Ukraine, two North Korean soldiers, Ri Gang Eun, 27, and Baek Pyung Gang, 22, appeared on a recent broadcast interview, pleading for help to reach South Korea. Ri, a sniper, suffered a shattered jaw and arm, and Baek, a rifleman, sustained a severe leg injury from a drone strike.

Joshua Senneker, an activist and a member of First Baptist Church in Calgary, Alberta, has spent the past month calling up Christian pastors and lay leaders across Canada. The 25-year-old hopes to rouse opposition to a new bill he calls a “grave threat”: Bill C‑9, the Combatting Hate Act. Senneker is working along with OnGuard Canada, an initiative of the Ontario-based Christian Impact Network, to spread the word.

On the first weekend in September, American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk spoke in Seoul, South Korea, at the Build Up Korea 2025 conference. Addressing the event’s more than 2,000 attendees, he said America and South Korea share a fight against communism and a future of “freedom and liberty.” He also linked South Korea’s conservative youth to a broader transnational movement.