“Behind the outcome of the Korean War’s conflict, Lord, and South Korea’s extraordinary economic prosperity in the following 63 years, we recognize Your guidance, protection and blessing.May we never forget King David’s sobering words in Psalm 127: “Unless the Lord builds the house, the laborer toils in vain;unless the Lord watches the city, the watchman …
Most North Korean Defectors Avoid Seeking Asylum in China FILE – Flags of China and North Korea hang outside the closed Ryugyong Korean Restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, April 12, 2016. www.voanews.com/content/most-north-korean-defectors-avoid-asylum-seeking-in-china/3445300.html Brian Padden August 02, 2016 7:06 AM SEOUL—The South Korean Foreign Ministry, during its weekly press briefing on Tuesday, did not address …
[Shim Jae-hong] Beginning of an activist http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160511000989 Few who read this will have had the experience of living in fear. But the same cannot be said of North Korean defectors in China. “There are many North Korean defectors in China who are living under the fear of arrest. Many women end up being the victims …
UN North Korea Probe Should Initially Focus on Defectors – Advocacy Group © AFP 2016/ JUNG YEON-JE ASIA & PACIFIC 03:01 25.03.2016Get short URL 0 276 1 0 UN investigators looking into possible crimes against humanity in North Korea should begin by interviewing some of the tens of thousands of defectors who can provide a wealth of evidence, Christian activist and Asia-based humanitarian aid worker …
Life and death on margins of North Korea society –AFP (Korea Herald 8-25-2013) North Korea’s famine in the 1990s unleashed a Darwinian struggle for survival that swiftly eliminated many of the most vulnerable in an already sharply stratified society, a U.N. panel heard Thursday. “People are treated without dignity in North Korea ― and in …
Escape from Camp 14, Shin Dong-hyuk in a North Korean prison for 23 years “Born in a prison camp, Shin Dong-hyuk describes how three generations of a family are incarcerated if one family member is considered disloyal. Anderson Cooper reports.”(quoted from the CBS News 60 Minutes website) ***Note: HHK’s director was part of an activist …
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Helping Hands Korea is profiled extensively in Melanie Kirkpatrick’s much heralded account of the network of volunteers, many of them Christian activists, that has sought to fill the vacuum created by governments and well-funded international agencies that have chosen to ignore the plight of North Korean refugees in China. …
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SEOUL — A new kind of high-profile demonstrator gathered in Seoul on Tuesday to protest China’s forced repatriation of North Korean defectors: South Korean film, TV and music stars who enjoy massive popularity in China. ………”There is fear in South Korea that those returned to North Korea will face severe punishment……… “We cannot say with absolute certainty …
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“It is a painful thing to watch this outpouring of emotion for someone who has been one of the most terrible despots of the 20th and 21st centuries,” said Tim Peters, a Seoul-based American missionary who assists North Korean defectors in China and South Korea. “It is completely incongruous with reality.” …
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