Kim Jong Il’s Biggest Enabler Is Coming To Town
Passing on an email from Henry at the NK Freedom Coalition (note newly redesigned website) about what they’ll be up to in D.C. the night Kim Jong il’s biggest enabler will be dining at the White House. For those not in or near D.C., we can participate, too:
On the occasion of the White House State dinner that President Barack Obama will host for President Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China on January 19, 2011, the North Korea Freedom Coalition cordially invites you to join us for a Candlelight Vigil to remember the North Korean refugees who have been repatriated against their will by the Chinese authorities to North Korea to face certain torture, certain imprisonment and even death for fleeing their homeland. We will begin gathering at Lafayette Park at 6 pm on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, for the candlelight vigil at 7 pm. We will walk in front of the White House for a quiet ceremony carrying a coffin to remember all those who have died because of this policy, and we will read THE LIST of all the names known to us of the North Korean refugees who have been forced back to North Korea. Special guests will include North Korean defectors.
Please join us for this event by RSPVing to Henry Song at henry@defenseforum.org.
If you are not able to join but want to participate, there are two ways that you can help:
1) please send your letters — both personal appeals and letters from NGOs are welcome — to President Hu to stop repatriating the North Korean refugees by email to Henry Song at henry@defenseforum.org — your letter will be delivered with many other letters at an undisclosed time to ensure receipt to the Chinese embassy on January 19.
2) please consider a donation in support of this event by donating to the North Korea Freedom Coalition at
http://www.nkfreedom.org/Donate/Donation.aspx
Hope to see you on January 19 or have your letter to President Hu Jintao to save the refugees in solidarity.
Candlelight Vigil Poster (PDF)
If the reason you can’t make it to the candlelight vigil happens to be that you’re in Seoul like me, mark your calendars for North Korean Freedom week here April 24-30, 2011.
If enough such protests against China about their atrocious North Korea policy are planned, do you think someone will mobilize all the PRC students in DC, MD, and VA for violent counter-demonstrations, Ã la Seoul in 2008 (and not-so-violent counter-demonstrations in Honolulu)
While they’re at it why not mention the millions suffering under China’s policies towards its own citizens? Hopefully there’s another group protesting that point since I think it’s important to be specific about your movement. Each cause needs to show themselves though.
Speaking of protests against Chinese policies against Chinese citizens, I have noticed a visible and persistent presence of Galun Fong supporters on college campuses in Honolulu and in MyÅngdong in Seoul (as of summer 2009, anyway).
Hu’s the boss? “By any measure, Mr. Hu is the most constrained Chinese leader in modern times. The notion that he could engineer a sweeping policy change the way that Mr. Deng threw open China’s economy three decades ago is unthinkable; more often he is a negotiator, brokering deals in a collective leadership where he has never seemed to fully consolidate power. ”
Hu can’t control his military or the leaders of state-owned companies, say David E.Sanger and Michael Wines.
Trust me, hu sees that the Americans are not controlled by Government, no matter their political ideology. That is why China is afraid of the U.S. It knows our people bicker and disagree with each other, and more frightening to them, it knows that we can insult our Government Cobservative or Liberal. If The Chinese people were ever to insult the PRC, may Freedom arise there also. Freedom that they can insult and live. The North Korean regime hopefully will follow suit if not first.