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Increasing internal resistance against Kim Jong Il’s regime?

March 24, 2010

 
 
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Stephen Haggard, Marcus Noland, and the East-West Center released a new report this week on changing political attitudes in North Korea. While repression and human rights atrocities continue in North Korea, the report explains that Kim Jong Il’s regime is receiving increasingly open and negative criticisms by its own people. In fact, according to [...]

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KIMJONGILIA Screenings in New York City (USA)

March 19, 2010

Friday, March 19, 2010
KIMJONGILIA, directed by N.C. Heikin, is a documentary about North Korea’s humanitarian crisis.   The film opens Friday, March 19, 2010 at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street).  Click here for more information about Films and Documentaries on North Korea.  Click here to read the NYT movie review.

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Vote for LiNK, a Pepsi Refresh Project Contestant

March 8, 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010
This March, 2010, LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) is in the running for Pepsi Refresh Project’s $250,000 grant to launch LIBERTY HOUSE, a six-month to one-year transitional housing program to provide assistance to newly arriving and recently-arrived North Korean Refugees in the United States.  Click here to VOTE for LiNK NOW. 
Liberty House will provide North Korean [...]

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North Korea’s Human Rights Self-Assessment

December 10, 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Universal Period Review (UPR) is a relatively new mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (formerly known as the Human Rights Commission) that was implemented with a series of United Nations Reforms in April of 2008.  Under the UPR, each UN Member State is subject to a human rights review [...]

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LiNK’s “The Hundred” Holiday Giving Program to Rescue 100 North Korean Refugees

November 6, 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009
LiNK’s “The Hundred” Holiday Giving Program to Rescue 100 North Korean Refugees

LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) presents The Hundred, a holiday giving program that aims to raise funding to rescue 100 North Korean Refugees. See information from LiNK below.
Click here to view LiNK’s The Hundred Holiday Campaign video.

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Now Accepting “Letters from America”: A Special Program for U.S.-Americans

November 3, 2009

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
“Letters from America”: A Special Program for U.S.-Americans
Take Action Now. Speak to North Koreans. Share what you think about North Korea and Kim Jong-Il.

Letters from America and What American Leaders Think of Kim Jong-Il are two programs established by the Defense Forum Foundation in 2008.  These programs broadcast letters written [...]

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A propaganda picnic

October 23, 2009

Friday, October 23, 2009
The following experiential piece, Picnic in North Korea by Marie Myung-Ok Lee, was published in The New York Times on October 23, 2009.  Click here for the full article.
Picnic in North Korea
By Marie Myung-Ok Lee
In August, my mother and I found ourselves in North Korea, where she and my father were born. [...]

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Hell on Earth: The West still turns a blind eye to the world’s most brutal and systematic abuse of human rights

October 22, 2009

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Hell on Earth
Oct 22, 2009
Click here to read the full article on economist.com.
The West still turns a blind eye to the world’s most brutal and systematic abuse of human rights
A SPRAWLING encampment of think-tankers, academics, hacks and policymakers earns a living outside North Korea’s walls. They pick over its nuclear [...]

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Bargaining power: NK launches 5 short-range missiles

October 12, 2009

Monday, October 12, 2009
North Korea tested five short-range missiles today, in a move that puzzles some and seems routine to others.  The NYT calls the launch a “provocation as the United States weighs whether to start bilateral talks.”
Click here for the NYT story, “North Korea tests 5 short-range missiles.”
Click here for Reuters’ Factbox on North [...]

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A new kind of Gulag

October 7, 2009

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
North Korea’s documented Gulags imprison alleged North Korean “defectors,” where defection is defined broadly and may include basic hunger coping mechanisms (such as searching for food or eating tree bark) to familial ties to another alleged defector.
Surveying more than 1,600 North Korean refugees, a new study by Marcus Noland (Director of the [...]

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