Archive for April, 2004

Jailed North Korean children run free as marines roll into Haengyong

By Edward Kim

The following is loosely based on an actual article written on the April 8, 2003 liberation of an Iraqi prison for children. Please dream the impossible with me for a moment.
HAENGYONG, NORTH KOREA (AFP) - More than 50,000 men, women and children held in a political concentration camp celebrated their freedom as US […]

Anti-war versus Anti-genocide

By Edward Kim

This April 28, it is certain that the number of people who will turn out in Washington, DC to push for the North Korea Freedom Act will be far less than the number who would turn out in opposition to a war with North Korea. Why do anti-war protestors not take up anti-genocide efforts […]

An Open Letter to Christians

By Edward Kim

Korean version
“If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death,
those who go staggering to the slaughter;
if you say, ‘Look, we did not know this’-
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it?
And will he not repay all according to their deeds?” […]

Southlanders Join Capitol Hill Rally for Rights in North Korea

By K. Connie Kang, Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2004
Cal Poly Pomona senior Sarah Oh, of Anaheim, and Yale junior Adrian Hong of San Diego have plenty of schoolwork to do. But they skipped classes to be on Capitol Hill today to participate in a daylong series of events inaugurating “North Korea Freedom […]