Long Walk to Freedom
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Asia May 1st Edition features Helping Hands Korea in its
cover story "Long
Walk to Freedom".
US Edition: "Running Out of the Darkness"
Author Archives: HHK
‘The new Kim of (north) Korea’ by Reshma Patil of HINDUSTAN TIMES
“……Tim Peters narrated how a network of activists plucked the defector and his family to safety. “There’s no way Kim Jong-un can be anything but a figurehead,” said Peters, American missionary and founder of Helping Hands Korea that last year … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 The images are as bizarre as they are rare. Today, North Koreans buried their Dear Leader, and the funeral was broadcast to the world via that country’s state television. However … Continue reading
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:” … Continue reading
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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