The regime claims Billy Graham told a North Korean newspaper Kim Il Sung was “God” who “rules the human world.” Voice of the Martyrs says the controversy is an example of why religious figures should not travel to the isolated country.

Billy Graham warns that the immunity to persecution that Christians in USA have enjoyed over the last few centuries is unusual.

Americans named Billy Graham the number four "Most Admired Man" in world of 2014 according to U.S. polling agency Gallup.