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At a coffee shop . . .
“But don’t you see, Eddie,” cried Kim Sung Ho, “For 50 years now, missionaries have been secretly infiltrating N. Korea with the gospel, winning converts from NK refugees, establishing underground churches now numbering well over half a million. Our secrecy was our key to unlocking […]

The Sympathetic
Eddie: Hi J. Did you get a chance to visit www.chosunjournal.com yet?
J: Yeah, I did. I had no idea it was that bad in N. Korea.
Eddie: What struck you the most?
J: The Le Monde article about the boy whose toes were severed from frost bite, but who ran away anyways because […]

June 20, 2001

Please briefly introduce yourself.
I am president of the Defense Forum Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation that sponsors programs on national security, foreign affairs, and human rights issues. Our major focus in human rights has been the situation in North Korea.
How did you become involved with human rights for North Korea?
Our Foundation […]

June 30, 2001
Please briefly introduce yourself.
I was born in 1958, at the 10th of February in Duesseldorf in former West Germany as the only son of an ordinary worker. In school I was interested in social affairs, politics, journalism, history and of course, human rights and “peace on earth.”

The only thing I did not learn […]

June 11, 2001

Please briefly introduce yourself.
I am a lawyer and former Mayor of Seoul, now serving as the Secretary-general of the Commission to Help North Korean Refugees, an affiliate of the Christian Council of Korea. I was a human rights advocate during the period of authoritarian rule, at which time I handled several serious torture […]