Archive for October, 2006

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From Regime Change to Nation Building

By Edward Kim

Many things have happened in the North Korean human rights movement since my last editorial (“Anti-war versus Anti-genocide”, 4/26/04). The U.S. enacted the NK Human Rights Act, groups like Helping Hands Korea, Citizen’s Alliance, and LFNK are sheltering more refugees in China, documentaries like Seoul Train have brought awareness to a more popular […]

The Importance of Community

By Edward Kim

PRINCETON, NJ, Oct 27, 2006 - Chosun Journal was launched in February 2001. At the time, there was Citizen’s Alliance, Defense Forum Foundation, NKNet, and Helping Hands Korea. Of these, only one (DFF) was based in the U.S. and still information on NK human rights tended to be overly scattered. So CJ was started […]

Reports on North Korea

Concentrations of Inhumanity prepared by David Hawk, Freedom House (May 21, 2007)
Download FULL REPORT in English (Word DOC 1.1 MB)
Download Excerpts in Korean (PDF 668KB)

NK Refugee Crisis, eds. Stephen Hagard and Marcus Noland (December 7, 2006)
Download FULL REPORT (PDF 1.7MB)

HRNK: Failure to Protect (October 30, 2006)
A call for the UN Security Counsel to […]

A Call to the UN Security Council to Act on DPRK’s Crimes Against

By Suzanne Scholte

Dear Friends:
On behalf of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and its Executive Director Debra Liang-Fenton, I want to alert you to a critically important project being launched today by the Committee and DLA Piper, an international law firm, at the British House of Lords.
Together with DLA Piper, the Committee has produced […]