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"
Category Archives: In the Media
ICNK coalition member, HHK lauds UN scrutiny of rampant North Korean human rights abuses: COI is established
ICNK (21.03.2013) – The International Coalition to Stop Crimes against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK) today welcomes the establishment of a special, three-person UN Commission of Inquiry to examine rights abuses in North Korea by the UN Human Rights Council … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide
Tagged aiding victims of human trafficking, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, Commission of Inquiry, Helping Hands Korea, helping persecuted Christians in North Korea, helping stateless children, human rights abuses, ICNK
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NK Net’s Magazine Interview with HHK’s Founder & Christian Activist,Tim Peters
The following wide-ranging interview by reporter, Kim So Yeol, with Christian activist Tim Peters, founder of Helping Hands Korea and long-term advocate for North Korean Human Rights, was conducted last month for an article that appeared in the February 2013 … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Testimonies
Tagged aiding victims of human trafficking, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, authoritarian regimes, food aid, Helping Hands Korea, helping stateless children, human rights abuses, human rights policy hostage to trade policy, Jang Sung Taek, Japan, Kim Jong Un, NK Net, North Korea's dynastic succession, political prison camps, President Obama, President Park Geun Hye, Prime Minister Shintaro Abe, repatriation, Tim Peters, transparent humanitarian aid, UN Commission of Inquiry (UN COI), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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North Korean prisoner escaped after 23 brutal years: CBS 60 Minutes
Escape from Camp 14, Shin Dong-hyuk in a North Korean prison for 23 years “Born in a prison camp, Shin Dong-hyuk describes how three generations of a family are incarcerated if one family member is considered disloyal. Anderson Cooper reports.”(quoted … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, In the Media, New Developments, TV/Radio, Testimonies
Tagged assisting refugees in third countries, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, authoritarian regimes, Crimes against humanity in North Korean prison camps, Helping former North Korean prisoners testify, Helping Hands Korea, Helping North Koreans to freedom, Radical mission strategies, rule by fear in the DPRK, Shin Dong-hyuk
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Forced Repatriation of NK Refugees discussed by Tim Peters at the invitation of the Henry Jackson Society, All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea and CSW in London
All Party ParliamentaryGroup on North Korea ‘China’s Policy of Forced Repatriation of North Korean Refugees and Implications for International Law’ Tim Peters Founder, Helping Hands Korea 5 – 6pm, Tuesday 19th June 2012 Room U, Portcullis House, London, SW1A 2LW … Continue reading
Posted in Featured Op-Ed Columns, Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide, Publications
Tagged aiding victims of human trafficking, assisting refugees in third countries, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, authoritarian regimes, China's brutal treatment of North Korean refugees, Helping Hands Korea, helping stateless children, orphans, post-Kim Jong-il, rule by fear in the DPRK
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Only Living Escapee of N.Korea’s Maximum Security Camp #14 Speaks Out: International MetroNews
“……In fact, the regime may not survive much longer. “News is increasingly leaking into the North through short-wave radio broadcasts and illegal international phone calls,” explains Tim Peters, a Seoul-based pastor who helps North Koreans escape. “Coming from a society … Continue reading
Canadian National Broadcasting interviews Tim on HHK’s care of children of North Korean refugee women in China
CBC’s Anna Maria Tremonti follows up her interview with Shin Dong-hyuk, about whom the new best-selling book Escape from Camp 14 was written, by interviewing Tim on the rampant trafficking of North Korean women in China and HHK’s care for … Continue reading
L.A.Times:American Missionary has his eyes trained on North Korea
Reporting from Seoul: It’s well after dark and Tim Peters leans forward to tell a story about poverty and North Korea. He’s surrounded by a dozen people at a gathering with the cozy atmosphere of a community college night class, the … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide, Publications
Tagged aiding victims of human trafficking, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, Catacombs, China, crackdown on refugees, grassroots disaster relief, Helping Hands Korea, helping persecuted North Koreans, human rights abuses, human rights abuses in North Korea, Kim Jong Un, North Korea, rule by fear in the DPRK, Save My Friend, Tim Peters
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L.A.Times:’Chinese policy on North Korean defectors decried’
Seoul—Angry demonstrators staged a rally Tuesday near the Chinese Embassy here to protest China’s state security police for arresting dozens of North Korean defectors who face torture, imprisonment and even death if returned to their homeland. Read more:
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide
Tagged asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, authoritarian regimes, Helping Hands Korea, helping persecuted North Koreans, Kim Jong Un, policy of forced repatriation of North Korean refugees
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South Koreans protest China’s repatriation of North Korean refugees:Washington Times
SEOUL — A new kind of high-profile demonstrator gathered in Seoul on Tuesday to protest China’s forced repatriation of North Korean defectors: South Korean film, TV and music stars who enjoy massive popularity in China. ………”There is fear in South Korea that … Continue reading
Posted in In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide, Publications
Tagged assisting refugees in third countries, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, grassroots disaster relief, Helping Hands Korea, helping persecuted North Koreans, human rights abuses in North Korea, protesting forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in China, Radical mission strategies
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‘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
