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: Testimonies
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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‘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
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
North Korean defectors jubilant at tyrant Kim Jong-il’s demise (The Australian)
(Dec.21,2011)Rick Wallace, TOKYO Correspondent for The Australian contrasts the jubilation of North Korean defectors who’ve escaped North Korea with the hysteria accompanying regime-led mourning for the death of longstanding dictator, Kim Jong-il. Quotes from HHK Director in this article: “Tim … Continue reading
Congressional testimony by CSW on the denial of religious freedom in North Korea and China by includes field reports from Helping Hands Korea/Catacombs
Christian Solidarity Worldwide’s (CSW) East Asian Team Leader Mr.Ben Rogers gave compelling testimony before the Congressional Committee of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Embedded in Ben’s testimony were reports from HHK/Catacombs about a remarkable 16 year-old North Korean … Continue reading
…”Push factors for them (NK refugees) to risk everything and leave North Korea are growing, just as the barriers to their exit are being strengthened,” Peters says.(Christian Science Monitor)2011.07.29
Read More: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/portrait-song-byeok-north-korean-propagandist-turned-protest-artist
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide, Testimonies
Tagged assisting refugees in third countries, Helping Hands Korea, North Korean refugees
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Action Report on ‘Coalition Relief Effort’ to Sendai,Ishinomaki & surrounding quake-ravaged areas in Japan–written by Chris Bosquillon
Please find hereafter a brief post-action report for“Operation Transporter” at Ishinomaki north of Sendai. – Initiative: 1 Japanese Tetsu Kishaba, originally from Okinawa, owner of “Transporter Tokyo” , former member of the Japanese Self-Defence Force and the french Foreign Legion, … Continue reading
Posted in New Developments, Publications, Testimonies
Tagged Fukushima, grassroots disaster relief, Japanese earthquake, Sendai relief efforts, transparent humanitarian aid, tsunami
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“Helping orphans find secure refuge in China”–JoongAng Daily News in partnership with IHT
An 11-year-old North Korean boy living alone a half-demolished home in China was found nearly dead from food poisoning after eating food found in the garbage. His refugee mother was arrested by Chinese authorities and returned to North Korea, and … Continue reading
Posted in In the Media, New Developments, Publications, Testimonies
Tagged asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, Catacombs, China, helping stateless children, North Korea, North Korean refugees, orphans
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Who Was Yoo Chul Min–And Why Does it Matter?
Who Was Yoo Chul Min?–And Why Does it Matter? By Tim Peters /Christian Activist/Founder of Helping Hands Korea A 10 year-old North Korean refugee boy hiding in China, made a sobering decision that was light years away from what most … Continue reading
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