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 [...]
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News Update – February 1 2010
Posted in Civil Liberties, Health Issues, Politics, Refugees / Defectors on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reaching North Koreans through Radio Broadcast
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Refugees / Defectors on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Small radio-operations in South Korea aim to raise voices of hope and enlightenment by airing information to counter Pyongyang’s propaganda and by passing messages from North Korean defectors to their friends and relatives in North Korea. Susan Chun of CNN reports the story of Kim Seong Min, the founder of Free North Korea Radio which is one of several Seoul-based radio [...]
News Update 20 January 2010
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Refugees / Defectors on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
South Korean Human Rights Body Breaks Silence on Abuses in North Korea - South Korea’s government-funded human rights watchdog has issued its first report on widespread abuses in North Korea. This is the first report issued by South Korea’s government-funded human rights watchdog on North Korea’s alleged abuses. v North Korea toughens punishment for defectors: U.N. envoy [...]
Mixed Signals Reveal N.Korea’s Dilemma
Posted in Politics on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The North Korean leadership in these days seems just too perplexed to clarify its diplomatic stance amid difficult questions like whether it should return to the six-party nuclear talks, what to do with Robert Park, and whether it should humble itself down to make “concessions” to accept the foreign food aid, especially from South Korea. Businessweek just featured an interesting article about North Korea’s mixed [...]
News Updates
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
U.S. brushes off North Korea’s call for a peace treaty North Korea proposed Monday signing a peace treaty this year to formally end the Korean War, a suggestion that Washington quickly dismissed. In a move seen as an attempt to bolster its negotiating position, the isolated communist regime said a return to negotiations on its [...]
U.S. Envoy Calls North Korean Rights Record ‘Appalling’
Posted in Civil Liberties, Health Issues, Politics on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
U.S. Envoy Calls North Korean Rights Record ‘Appalling’ Human rights have been a flash point in already tense ties between rivals North Korea and the United States, but the issue has often been overshadowed by Washington’s attempts to prod Pyongyang back to sputtering nuclear disarmament talks. “It is one of the worst places in terms [...]
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