Original article Published : 2013-01-22 19:36 Updated : 2013-01-22 19:36 Expat and Korean musicians will perform Saturday in Hongdae to raise money for a North Korean human rights organization. The CLASH event at Club Freebird will raise funds for Justice For North Korea, a volunteer organization that works to improve human rights North of the [...]
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article by Sandra Choi December 18, 2012 The sharp decline in the number of North Korean refugees who have defected to South Korea this year has alarmed human rights advocates. Estimates provided by South Korea’s government indicate that only 1,400 made the perilous journey this year compared to 2,737 during the previous year. This [...]
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article By JFNK volunteers Brandon Hansen. Photography by Dustin Cole. Peter Jung was working as a missionary in China in 1998 when he first witnessed waves of North Korean defectors being repatriated back to the country they had risked their lives escaping. Appalled, he found he could no longer stand the injustice and [...]
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article By Mok Yong Jae [2012-08-01 14:21 ] As China is officially denying the use of torture against Kim Young Hwan, researcher for Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet), it has been confirmed that other human rights activists in China were tortured. Peter Jung, Director of Justice for North Korea, who [...]
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article By Kang Hyun-kyung Calls are mounting for the government to send a stern message to China that any abuse against hundreds of Koreans serving prison sentences there are not be acceptable. The concern about Korean detainees was raised after freed activist Kim Young-hwan disclosed his suffering at a detention center in the northeastern [...]
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article (JFNK Director Peter Jung is pictured next to Lee Kyu-ho, in a photo that appeared on the front page of The Korea Herald on Aug. 1, 2012.)
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article. Expats use Christmas to raise funds for North December 27, 2010 Laurene Walker imagined what she would be doing if she had stayed at home in Texas this Christmas season: Preparing holiday meals, opening presents, playing board games and sharing love with friends and family. Instead Walker celebrated the concept of sharing and [...]
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article appeared here. Aiding North Korea defectors: A high-stakes spy mission A recent operation offers a peek inside the ‘underground railroad,’ a network of safe houses and secret border crossings that assists in the escape of North Korean refugees. Demonstrators in Seoul, the South Korean capital, enact a North Korean soldier’s detention of a [...]
CONTINUE READINGOriginal article appeared here. The plight of NK refugees in China September 15, 2009 Justice for North Korea members conduct a street performance Saturday afternoon in Insa-dong, central Seoul, that depicts how North Korean defectors to China are treated. Provided by Justice for North Korea North Koreans who escape their impoverished homeland by sneaking into [...]
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