Category Archives: North Korean Human Rights

길에서 On the Street

강남에 NAUH하고

In Gangam with NAUH.

Front: “I seriously had no clue…”

Back: “Are you aware?  For sixteen years running, North Korea has brought up the rear in terms of economic freedom.

The United States of America ranks 8th,

South Korea 31st,

China 140th,

North Korea 179th.”

Staggering statistics on their own, but add to them that the young man wearing the signage came himself from North Korea, and is now standing in one of the ritziest sections of Seoul, and you might just feel a little dizzy.

그 충격적인 통계뿐만 아니라 포스터를 입은 사람이 북한에서 온 활동가입니다.

This activist’s name is Sung Ho.  Here’s one of many video interviews he’s given in the past few years.

저의 친구 성호입니다.  이비디오이비디오 보세요…

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Never say “nothing”. 그렇게 말 하지말고.

General Groups How to Help Website Contact
Int’l Coalition to Stop… (ICNK) intern, volunteer stopnkcrimes.org kekyoung@gmail.com
Citizens’ Alliance for NKHR internships eng.nkhumanrights.or.kr nkhr@naver.com
NKnet events, translating and more (see website) en.nknet.org webmaster@nknet.org
Helping Hands Korea/Catacombs meetings about their work every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Samgakgi helpinghandskorea.org tapkorea@gmail.com
PSCORE internship and tutoring programs pscore.org/en pscore@pscore.org
Free the NK Gulag translating and editing eng.nkgulag.org nkgulag@gmail.com
Justice for North Korea (JFNK) help with events and activities www.justice4nk.org/en rescuenorthkorea@gmail.com
Database Center for NKHR (NKDB) editing reports nkdb.org nkdbi@hanmail.net
North Korea Peace sending socks via balloons to North Korea www.northkoreapeace.org northkoreapeace@gmail.com




Teaching


Hana Center (near Daechi) English tutoring on Saturdays for NK refugees
jordan.groh@gmail.com
Great Vision School

andrearakushin@yahoo.com
Jahutah School volunteer work including teaching English unischool.org 02-754-4647




News Outlets


Daily NK (news) internships involving writing/editing/translating dailynk.com/english solidarity@dailynk.com
Open Radio for North Korea
english.nkradio.org opennk@naver.com




Protesting China’s Treatment of Defectors


Demonstrations at Chinese Embassy rally at the Seoul embassy daily at 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.
justicenk@gmail.com (for JFNK)
→ Gyungbokgung Station, exit 2, walk straight 10 min.
SaveMyFriend online petition

→ http://www.change.org/petitions/save-north-korean-refugees-savemyfriend
Letter-writing campaign writing to Chinese officials

→ http://www.nkfreedom.org/Get-Involved/Urgent-Action-North-Korean-Refugees-in-Grave-Danger.aspx




Also


http://linkglobal.org/who-we-are/faq.html (see “Can I write a letter to a refugee in your shelter?”)


http://www.nkfreedom.org/Get-Involved/Ways-You-Can-Get-Involved.aspx (send a letter to be broadcast to NK, only for Americans (?))
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전원책

sons of ********

During a television broadcast on May 27, 2012, Jun Won Tchak created controversy by declaring that South Korean lawmakers should encounter no difficulty in proclaiming that Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are, er, were “sons of *******” in order to demonstrate that they themselves are not “blind supporters” of North Korea.

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