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"
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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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Escape from North Korea:The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad
Helping Hands Korea is profiled extensively in Melanie Kirkpatrick’s much heralded account of the network of volunteers, many of them Christian activists, that has sought to fill the vacuum created by governments and well-funded international agencies that have chosen to … Continue reading
Posted in New Developments
Tagged aiding victims of human trafficking, asssisting North Korean refugees in crisis, Catacombs, Escape from North Korea, Helping Hands Korea, How to help North Koreans in crisis, human rights abuses, Melanie Kirkpatrick, Radical mission strategies, The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
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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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PBS on Helping Hands Korea and North Korean Refugees
Watch North Korea Refugees on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. What’s wrong with this picture? 50 miles north of here is possibly the worst human rights situation, including Christian persecution, in the entire world, and here we … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, TV/Radio
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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“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
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, New Developments, Publications
Tagged authoritarian regimes, food aid, human rights abuses, North Korea's dynastic succession, repression, rule by fear in the DPRK
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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’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
