Orange County, CA, June 4, 2008 - Calling for a Jewish boycott of the Beijing Olympics, 194 American rabbis recently cited the following reasons: China ’s support for the genocidal government of Sudan; the nation’s human rights record; its crackdown on Tibet; and providing missiles to Iran and Syria.
Seven words strikingly absent […]

The U.S. government’s recent moves on sanctioning luxury sales to North Korea is ingenious on many levels.
It heeds the wisdom of Sun Tzu: “If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.” As one report puts it:

“The U.S. government’s first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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?” […]

With the exception of Kim Dae Jung, I cannot think of a more zealous, well-intentioned but ultimately boneheaded advocate for North Korean human rights than the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. A response to at least one of Mr. Kristof’s editorials published in the last few weeks regarding the situation of North Korean […]

The Chosun Journal has often been accused of being too one-sided and polemical. As the editor, I am mostly to blame for this unfortunate indictment. It is unfortunate because The Chosun Journal’s staff itself is made up of liberals and conservatives, Christians and agnostics, diverse people with opposing points of view. What binds us […]

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo
“He who saves one life saves the world entire.” - […]