World
The United States Mission to the United Nations hosted "Victims' Voices: A Conversation on North Korean Human Rights," a panel of testimonies from North Korean defectors at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 30 at 10:30 AM. Representatives from each country, 30 defectors, leaders of Korean human rights organizations, and international press were present. Joseph Kim, Jin-Hye Jo, and Hye-Sook Kim testified regarding the human rights conditions in North Korea.READ MORE
World
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) presented its latest report on the North Korea during one of the events of North Korea Freedom Week (NKFW) on April 27 at 6 PM at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. During this presentation of the report, called "Arsenal of Terror: North Korea's Role as a State Sponsor of Terrorism," the HRNK recommended that the U.S. clarify the standards of what defines a country to be a state sponsor of terrorism, and that the North Korean government be re-designated as a state sponsor of terrorism (SSOT). The HRNK added that this greatly affects the human rights conditions in the country.READ MORE
Ministries
The 12th annual North Korea Freedom Week will be taking place from April 26 to May 2 this year, in Washington, D.C. and New York. North Korea Freedom Week (NKFW) started in 2004, and has taken place in April at Washington, D.C. each year. Since 2010, most of the activities of the NKFW took place in South Korea to spread awareness of the condition of human rights in North Korea and gather interest in South Korean citizens. This year, the NKFW returned to Washington, D.C.READ MORE
Church
Recently, pastors in New York and New Jersey were nominated to receive prestigious awards, news that was well-received by the Korean church community. Reverend Samuel Chang Ghil Kim from Protestant Abbey Mission was nominated to be awarded the Norman Vincent Peale Award on Positive Thinking, and Reverend Seung Hee Kim from New York Cho Dae Church was nominated to receive an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.READ MORE
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