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"
Tag Archives: Kim Jong Un
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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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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‘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
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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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
Posted in Documentaries, Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Persecution Updates Worldwide, Publications, TV/Radio
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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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
Posted in Human Rights & Wrongs, In the Media, New Developments, Publications
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 Korea’s dynasty enters third generation (Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, Brisbane Times)
Dec.24,2011 An iron hand still rules North Korea’s hermit kingdom despite its ruler’s death, writes Hamish McDonald. (In a wide-ranging article that reveals decades of experience as a North Korea watcher, Sydney Morning Herald’s Asia-Pacific Editor, Hamish McDonald explores … Continue reading
