and supplanted it with a humanist cult that vested all power in themselves and that—unlike true religion—was bound to die. In North Korea this did not involve as much destruction as in Russia, since Christianity was not so well-established there and ancient traditions, rather than a deity, tend to prevail. There is no war on these traditions as such, and especially not on ancestor-worship, since it does not conflict with the regime, but marches merrily alongside it. By great good fortune I have witnessed,