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Female N.Korean refugees suffer abuse

Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Health Issues, Refugees / Defectors on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If you are a North Korean, you would be in a dire need of protection of your human rights under the government’s oppression. If you are a woman and North Korean, you would know that wherever you go, the protection of your rights would be barely possible.
Even once a few of those North Koreans successfully flee their [...]

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China sent 300,000 tons of food to N.Korea last year

Posted in Civil Liberties, Health Issues on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It seems that China has just recently provided about 300,000 tons of food to North Korea last year to ease its chronic shortages.
China, the North’s sole major ally, has long been its chief energy and food supplier.
Unification Minister Hyun In-Taek gave the figure in a report Tuesday to a closed session of a parliamentary committee, [...]

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Vote for LiNK to Help It Win $250,000 (Update)

Posted in Civil Liberties, Refugees / Defectors on February 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Liberty in North Korea (LINK), which is one of the most active and largest organizations helping North Korean refugees, is competing with 189 organizations for the grant from Pepsi and only the top 2 will be awarded $250k. 
The poll ends on February 28th, and anyone can vote once a day, but can vote again daily every [...]

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Portsmouth man describes North Korea’s ‘closed society’

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics on February 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The few reporters and toursits who get a chance to go to North Korea from the western world seldom venture far from the capital Pyongyang where the same circuit of buildings, monuments and museums only serve to falsify the life of the majority of the population.
But Nate Groth, Portsmouth, N.H., native has been where less than 3,000 other western tourists have [...]

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Ji-eun’s Story

Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Health Issues, Refugees / Defectors on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

JoongAng Daily’s article features a story of Ji-Eun, a North Korean defector who currently resides in Seoul. Her father died in North Korea when she was little and the family had a hard time carving out a living in the poverty stricken nation. In 2000, when she was 6 years old, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Ji-eun [...]

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N.Korea food crisis deepening…

Posted in Civil Liberties, Health Issues on February 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »

North Korea’s severe food shortages are expected to worsen this year after a poor grain harvest in 2009.
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The unification ministry, which handles cross-border relations, said the communist state produced an estimated 4.11 million tons of grain last year, a five percent drop from 4.3 million tons in 2008.
Annual demand is 5.4 million tons, according to [...]

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