Message from Rev. Douglas Shin

Rev. Shin e-mailed today to announce a press conference in Beijing(!):

Four SK parliamentarians from the opposition party will be speaking on NK human rights and NK refugees

Time: 2 PM, Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Place: Hibiscus Room (2nd Fl.), Great Wall Sheraton Hotel

By Reps. Kim Moon-Soo, Choi Byung-Gook, Bae Il-Do, and Park Seung-Hwan (All from Grand National Party)

Subject matter: Yanji trip (Mon-Tue), SK Consulate visit to talk to more than 100 NK refugees there (Wed), and Weifang Prison visit for a SK activist who has been jailed since Jan. 2003 for “NK refugee boatpeople” attempt in Yentai (Thurs.)

For more info, please don’t call SK Consulate or Sheraton Hotel but call me or Ms. Ji-Young Soh at Rep. Kim Moon-Soo’s office in Seoul (+82-2-784-2777 or +82-11-9775-7942).

A follow-up press conference will be held at the Press Room of SK National Assembly at 9 a.m., Friday, January 14, upon their return.Pastor Douglas Shin+82-10-4753-5744

Paging Andrew Petty! Anyone else going to be there?