An American Christian activist Robert Park , having been detained in North Korea since the last Christmas, has been released and arrived in Beijing today. He will later be taken to the U.S. embassy. s s … according to comments attributed to Robert Park by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency, the North Koreans have convinced him that he was wrong in his view of [...]
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Robert Park released
Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Politics, Refugees / Defectors on February 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Defector’s Testimony (4): Prisoners’ Sheds in the Detention Settlement
Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Health Issues on February 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
In august 1987, we arrived at Life Detention Settlement No, 13 as newly recruited guards. When we saw the prisoners’ villages for the first time, all of us were very surprised and said to each other, “Hey, look, they must be the South Korean beggar villages that we used to watch on North Korean [...]
News Update – February 1 2010
Posted in Civil Liberties, Health Issues, Politics, Refugees / Defectors on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
66 North Koreans Given Refugee Status in Canada: Canada granted 66 North Korean defectors refugee status in 2009, which is almost 10 times higher than in 2008, a report said Saturday. s N.Korea’s Weapons Exports ‘Down 90%’ Since UN Sanctions, which included the banning of all arms exports from the country since last year. However, the [...]
DPRK currency reform update
Posted in Civil Liberties, Health Issues on January 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Overall food situation is severely worsening as prices soar in this year. Especially, the Rice price has soared more than tenfold of pre-currency revaluation price. According to Good Friends: Those who are immediately affected by the horrifying increase of rice price are the residents with dearth of food saved at home. Households without food [...]
MUST-WATCH: Crossing
Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Refugees / Defectors on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Crossing is the first major independent film to capture the dire situation of North Korean refugees and North Korea’s denial of human rights crisis, and is South Korea’s official entry for the 2009 Oscar Best Foreign Language Film category. “a ‘Schindler’s List’ for North Korea.” — Wall Street Journal The film is about a North [...]
American detained at Chinese border (update)
Posted in Civil Liberties, Concentration Camps, Refugees / Defectors on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Only a month after the Korean-American missionary Robert Park‘s voluntary entry into N.Korea, another American seems to have been detained. (AP) North Korea said today that it has detained an American man for trespassing on its border with China, the second arrest of a U.S. citizen by the communist regime in the past several weeks. [...]
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