Updated April 24, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC, Mar 27, 2007 - It gives me great pleasure to announce the events we have confirmed so far for North Korea Freedom Week April 22-29, 2007. I believe this year’s events will be more significant and have a greater impact than any in the past. It is certainly critical […]

Where will you be this Saturday, December 2nd? Will you take a stand for those who are suffering?
Please find below an updated list of the cities and countries that so far have agreed to participate in the International Protest Against China’s Violent Repatriation of North Korean Refugees. We now have coordinators in 13 countries […]

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 […]

SEOUL, Oct 18, 2006 — For six years now I have been active in lobbying for human rights in North Korea. My associates and I provide detailed information to Western journalists. We organize protests at the Panmunjom border with North Korea, help North Korean refugees rush past guards and enter Western embassies in China, and […]

SEOUL, Nov 4, 2006 - A 10 year-old North Korean refugee boy hiding in China, made a sobering decision that was light years away from what most other elementary 4th graders are preoccupied with–a life-and-death gamble to cross the China-Mongolian border under the cover of darkness.
His name was Yoo Chul Min and his decision resulted […]

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 […]

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 […]