November 5, 2006

1. Please briefly introduce yourself.
I am the Executive Director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. I am responsible for conceptualizing and coordinating all projects undertaken by the Committee. HRNK is a broad domestic and international grassroots initiative on the issue of human rights in North Korea. I […]

February 1, 2004

1. Please briefly introduce yourself.
Up until the 1990s, we basically had only two accounts in English: Kang Chol Hwan’s prison memoirs, The Aquariums of Pyongyang, and Soon Ok Lee’s book, Eyes of the Tailless Animals. It has not been until 2000 when a critical mass of former prisoners who were among the scores […]

January 21, 2004

1. Please introduce yourself and explain your work.
My full-time job is the Dean of the George Washington University Law School but in this capacity I am Chairman of the U.S. Committee on International Religious Freedom, which was created by Congress in 1998 as a legislative and executive branch, and foreign policy advisory committee. […]

January 21, 2003

1. Please briefly introduce yourself.
I’m a 42 year-old single Christian (Catholic). I was born in the U.S., but primarily raised internationally until age 12. My father was an agronomist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). As a result I lived in Egypt, Argentina, Bangladesh, Thailand and Italy.
My entire frame of […]

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 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 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 […]

May 19, 2001

Please briefly introduce yourself.
I first came to Korea in 1975. I have not lived that entire period in Korea, but I have seen enormous changes in this peninsula as I’ve been a resident here for a considerable time in each of the last four decades. I first came as a freelance missionary in […]

May 5, 2001
Please briefly introduce yourself.
I am a Korean-American pastor living in Los Angeles. Over the past two years, I have been part of building underground railroads for NK refugees in China that will help them get to Mongolia and SE Asian countries in order for them to go to South Korea through […]