Long Walk to Freedom
TIME
Asia May 1st Edition features Helping Hands Korea in its
cover story "Long
Walk to Freedom".
US Edition: "Running Out of the Darkness"Make a Difference by Donating via PayPal to Assist North Koreans in Crisis!
Cry Freedom! HHK urges UK Parliament to enact policy changes related to North Korea’s religious persecution and protection of refugees in China
Posted in Documentaries, Featured Op-Ed Columns, Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide
Tagged advocacy for North Korean human rights and Christian persecution, aiding victims of human trafficking, assisting refugees in third countries, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, authoritarian regimes, Catacombs, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Helping Hands Korea, human rights abuses in North Korea, Radical mission strategies, Tim Peters
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PBS on Helping Hands Korea and North Korean Refugees
Watch PBS feature on North Korean refugees :http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/january-6-2012/north-korea-refugees/10055/
Helping Hands Korea’s work of assisting North Koreans who’ve fled totalitarian DPRK enters its 16th year and is covered by PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly in its January 8th, 2012 program. Despite daunting challenges at the China-North Korean border, helping the refugees goes on. This PBS segment is featured alongside Paul Simon’s surprising new album,which in the making, Simon smiles, “God unexpectedly showed up.”
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Tagged aiding victims of human trafficking, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, authoritarian regimes, Catacombs, grassroots disaster relief, Helping Hands Korea, helping persecuted North Koreans, human rights abuses, Kim Jong Un, refugees, rule by fear in the DPRK, Tim Peters, transparent humanitarian aid
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Tim Peters on the Coerced Mourning for the Death of Kim Jong-il
“It is a painful thing to watch this outpouring of emotion for someone who has been one of the most terrible despots of the 20th and 21st centuries,” said Tim Peters, a Seoul-based American missionary who assists North Korean defectors in China and South Korea. “It is completely incongruous with reality.” READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8982025/Kim-Jong-il-memorial-service-Kim-Jong-un-hailed-as-new-supreme-leader.html
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Tagged "God showed up", aiding victims of human trafficking, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, Catacombs, grassroots disaster relief, helping persecuted North Koreans, helping stateless children, Kim Jong Un, Mainstream church not in fight to help refugees, Paul Simon, Radical mission strategies, the power of fear in North Korea
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Foreign Policy(Jan-Feb)-”Preaching the Gospel in the Hermit Kingdom–Can Christian evangelicals save North Korea?”
The mission strategy of HHK/Catacombs to reach North Korean
refugees is outlined by Tim in this issue written by Isaac Stone Fish, which gives an overview of various mission approaches to the extraordinarily difficult field of the great Christian persecutor, the DPRK. Quotes from the article: “But the majority of the missionaries involved with North Koreans work with them only when they’re safely outside the country. “For the ones who come out, Christianity can do a lot more for them because they need so much healing,” says a Christian activist in South Korea. Tim Peters runs Helping Hands Korea, an organization that helps North Korean women and children who have already crossed into China flee to other countries. He told a story of a man in North Korea who, in late December after the death of Kim Jong Il, became interested in Christianity. But after speaking about it in his community, he raised the suspicion of security forces. He and his family fled North Korea the next day, and Peters’s team near the Chinese border is now helping them. “Because they were discovered listening to Christian radio, if they were to be repatriated the punishment would be extraordinarily harsh,” says Peters.” READ MORE: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/06/preaching_the_gospel_ in_the_hermit_kingdom
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide
Tagged Catacombs, helping persecuted North Koreans, innovative approaches to East Asian missions, lessons from the Iron Curtain era, North Korea's dynastic succession, North Korean refugees, Radical mission strategies, The Great Commission in North Korea
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‘Don’t forget NK people amid succession’–Korea Times interview with Christian activist, Tim Peters
“As this drama is being played out in North Korea’s corridors of power, people are foraging in the forest to find bark to make soup,” the American missionary said. “It’s important to balance what’s going on in Pyongyang with the fact that its economy is moribund and people are doing anything they can to survive.” READ MORE: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/01/113_102398.html
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“UN flags at half-mast to mark Kim’s funeral”—AFP
What’s wrong with this picture?????
“Today should be a time for the UN to show solidarity with the victims — the millions of North Koreans brutalized by Kim’s merciless policies of starvation and oppression — and not with the perpetrators.”—UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer
UN Bows Again to Kim Jong Il by Claudia Rosett
Canadian Broadcasting Co.(CBC) interviews Tim:the plight of NK refugees with Kim Jong Un now at the helm of state
NORTH KOREA DEFECTORS. That’s coming up on CBC’s As It Happens. http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2181337785
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Hungarian Daily quotes HHK director on the Likelihood of a Revolt in North Korea
(Although a full translation of the Hungarian is not available, the following is the full answer Director Tim Peters gave the Metro journalist in English responding to “Will the North Korean people revolt following the death of Kim Jong-il?” Peters:” I believe it’s highly unlikely that the North Korean people will revolt, at least in the short term. The Kim family dynasty has been superimposed over a highly regimented social structure, a system of mutual surveillance and self-censorship that has been honed for over 60 years. That will most likely remain intact for some time despite the obvious youth, inexperience and lack of diplomatic and military training of Kim Jong Il’s designated heir, Kim Jong Un, age 28. If Kim Jong Un proves completely inept, and cracks do appear in the ruling elite, then factions could appear in the military and Workers Party. Things at that point could get very dicey indeed.”
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Tagged authoritarian regimes, controversy about North Korea, helping persecuted North Koreans, human rights abuses in North Korea, Kim Jong Un, North Korea's dynastic succession, North Korea's new leader, stability in northeast Asia
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North Korean’s tale of isolation, fear (CNN)
CNN’s Stan Grant has rare access to one man who tells his story of terror, starvation, and spies in isolated North Korea. WATCH: North Korean\’s tale of isolation and fear
North Korean mourners, crying to survive?—CNN
“Many have asked whether the anguish is genuine. How could citizens mourn the passing of a totalitarian, such a gross abuser of human rights? The answer may be found in the human rights abuses themselves. It is a lamentable characteristic of totalitarian regimes that they often demand acts of deceit from those they oppress. Often it is a matter of simple survival. Those who hate the regime are obliged to demonstrate patriotism. To fail is to risk persecution. The only alternative is to flee, a choice made by tens of thousands of North Koreans in the past two decades.” (John Sifton:director of advocacy for Asia at Human Rights Watch. READ MORE: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/22/opinion/sifton-korea-tyranny/index.html?hpt=ias_t4
Defectors Skeptical About N.Koreans’ Grief(Chosun Ilbo) http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/22/2011122201543.html
