Comments on: Chinese Police Raid LiNK Refuge, Arrest Three U.S. Activists and Six Refugees

By: OneFreeKorea » The Shenyang Six Are Freed

OneFreeKorea » The Shenyang Six Are Freed — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:43:41 +0000

[...] Do you still remember their story, the arrest of Adrian Hong and the courageous LiNK activists, and the shame on our Consul General in Shenyang?Â IÂ had given up all hope, but others did not, and their persistenceÂ has beenÂ repaid with six lives.Â Â WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 20 – Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) today announced that six North Korean refugees imprisoned by Chinese authorities last December were recently released from a prison in Shenyang. The six – which include two teenage boys, one woman in her early twenties, and three older women – were arrested in Beijing last December after seeking asylum at a foreign mission in China. They arrived in South Korea on July 19. [...]

By: OneFreeKorea » How a U.S. Consul Helped Kill Six North Korean Refugees

OneFreeKorea » How a U.S. Consul Helped Kill Six North Korean Refugees — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:20:52 +0000

[...] Back inÂ January, I told you the story of the Shenyang Six, a group of six North Korean refugees who soughtÂ refuge from persecution and starvation in their homeland, and how the Chinese authorities, following their long-standing custom, hauled them back to spendÂ whatever remains of theirÂ lives inÂ Kim Jong Il’s gulag.Â Readers will recall that LiNK’s (Liberty in North Korea)Â Executive Director, Adrian Hong, was also arrested by Chinese police and held for three days.Â What I did not know untilÂ now is that the indirectÂ cause of this tragedy was a U.S. Consul who was willing to flout a binding U.S. statute and consign six innocents to certain death.Â I have asked our Shenyang Consulate for its side of the story, and I’ve promised to print their entire response.Â But from Adrian Hong’s statement below, now a part of the Congressional Record, it looks like our own State Department has less regard for U.S. statutes, or the lives of innocent people,Â than it does for Kim Jong Il’s feelings, or Hu Jintao’s.Â And that calls into question just who and what our diplomatic facilities in China even represent. [...]

By: OneFreeKorea » It’s Time for Jay Lefkowitz to Resign

OneFreeKorea » It’s Time for Jay Lefkowitz to Resign — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:53:21 +0000

[...] The word that Eberstadt may have cause to rethink here is “inexplicable.”Â And when Washington has just cut the knees out from under Japan, whoÂ can still believe that it will be willing to apply the pressure of our good offices toÂ China’s barbaric and unlawful treatment of North Korea’s refugees, or the comfort women on whom its men prey? The critical missing piece for getting this underground railroad up and running is safe passage through China. But because the South Korean government fears antagonizing the North and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is too timid to face down Beijing, Chinaâ€™s opposition to this rescue mission has gone unchallenged. Only the United States is in a position to help overcome Beijingâ€™s recalcitrance. [...]

By: OneFreeKorea » Sorry ‘Bout That: How a South Korean Consulate Helped Doom Nine Family Members of Its POWs

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:41:33 +0000

[...] *Â December 2006:Â The Shenyang Six, refugees who are in Chinese jails now, and who may soonÂ be sent back to North Korea. [...]

By: OneFreeKorea » Chosun Ilbo Draws ‘Line of Death!’

OneFreeKorea » Chosun Ilbo Draws ‘Line of Death!’ — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:26:56 +0000

[...] I don’t believe this.Â The VANK losers are … diplomats?Â “0 wad some Power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us! / It wad frae monie a blunder free us….”Â LiNK’s members are braving the very real risk of years in Chinese prisons to save actual Korean lives, and a bunch of cyber-thugs in PC-bangs are crowned as the new Righteous Army? Due to such efforts, maps in various countries are changing the â€œSea of Japanâ€ reference to include the name â€œEast Sea.â€ [...]

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:01:34 +0000

Just my thoughts. Would also be ironic of they could get Alec Baldwin of “Team America” fame to star.

By: snow

snow — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:59:50 +0000

If there really is a Hollywood movie being made about the situation in North Korea, I wonder if they’ll somehow work it into the story about how the US is to blame for it all.

By: OneFreeKorea » Gerry Bevers, Tokdo, and the Heckler’s Veto

OneFreeKorea » Gerry Bevers, Tokdo, and the Heckler’s Veto — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:58:12 +0000

[...] I’m amazed at how all eyes can follow the swarm of bees and yet miss the pink elephant in the room. So do you really love your country? Do you have a pair? Wanna fight the illegal occupation of half your country and the enslavement of a third of its people, even when some actual courage is required? Then go to the DMZ, or any Hanchongryon rally, and shout, “Wonsan-nun uri ttang!” Unlike Tokdo, there are actual people who live in the northern half of Korea. And uppity talk at Japan is pretty much a no-balls-required proposition, although it won’t free or save anyone. It’s even possible to do something legitimately courageous, or something simple, convenient, and practical to actually help some of them, but few will. The cries of 23 million enslaved Koreans fall on deaf ears, and will for as long as they still live. As a wise man once said, [...]

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:16:17 +0000

kumar,

If a North Korea related Hollywood movie is in the works is it actually going to be big budget theater release or just some low budget made for TV movie that hardly anyone will ever see?

By: kumar

kumar — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:08:12 +0000

btw, re: hollywood

already in the works.