Columns

Orange County, CA, June 4, 2008 - Calling for a Jewish boycott of the Beijing Olympics, 194 American rabbis recently cited the following reasons: China ’s support for the genocidal government of Sudan; the nation’s human rights record; its crackdown on Tibet; and providing missiles to Iran and Syria.
Seven words strikingly absent […]

Edward Kim's Column

Dear Friends:
We are releasing this summary report of information on the escalating crisis facing the North Korean refugees and to urge you to take part in the International Protest Against China’s Violent Treatment of North Korean Refugees occuring around the world at noon on November 30 and December 1. Below is an update on the […]

Suzanne Scholte's Column

SEOUL, October 26, 2007 - Background Facts: The International Relations Committee at the US Congress recently (Tuesday, Oct. 23?) passed a resolution demanding a halt on the Chinese government’s forced repatriation of North Korean asylum seekers in China.
CDNK (Committee for Democratization of North Korea) is led by Hwang Jang-Yop, the highest-ranking former North Korean in […]

Dr. Norbert Vollertsen's Column

SEOUL, Nov 4, 2006 - A 10 year-old North Korean refugee boy hiding in China, made a sobering decision that was light years away from what most other elementary 4th graders are preoccupied with–a life-and-death gamble to cross the China-Mongolian border under the cover of darkness.
His name was Yoo Chul Min and his decision resulted […]

Rev. Tim Peter's Column

Sunday morning I opened the San Francisco Chronicle and found a story called “An ‘underground railway’ rolling to freedom or death” in the Insight section. It was written by Josh Chin who is a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He was given the rare opportunity to enter a safe house […]

Sarah Kim's Column

Interviews

Debra Liang-Fenton
Executive Director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Rev. Tim Peters
Director of Helping Hands Korea

Suzanne Scholte
President of the Defense Forum Foundation

Dr. Norbert Vollertsen
German doctor and human rights activist

Sang-Chul Kim
Secretary-general of the Commission to Help North Korean Refugees

Rev. Douglas Shin
Korean-American Christian pastor

Tarik Radwan
Assistant Professor of Law, Handong International Law School, Pohang, Korea, and. Advocate with Jubilee Campaign, USA

Michael Young
Chairman of the U.S. Committee on International Religious Freedom

David Hawk
Researcher for U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and author of "The Hidden Gulag"

Testimonies

Eyes of Tailless Monkeys
Soon Ok Lee shares her experience of torture - to herself, Christians, even infants - in a concentration camp. [Escape from China]

US House Testimonies
Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, May 2, 2002. Including testimonies by Lee Young-kook, former Kim Jong Il Bodyguard; Rev. Tim Peters; Dr. Norbert Vollertsen; Kim Sung Min, defector and director of North Korean Defectors' Volunteer Group; and statements from other refugees.

Citizen's Alliance Witness Accounts
NKHR: Dozens of testimonies by North Korean refugees and defectors.

Biological Experiments on Political Prisoners
LFNKR: Refugee testimonies of NK biological experiments performed on living political prisoners.

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