Freedom House Blogging for North Korean Human Rights

OFK’s posts from Freedom House’s July 2005 North Korean human rights conference in Washington:

• Freedom House Washington Conference
• Pt. 1, General Observations
• Pt. 2, Sharansky Speech
• Pt. 3, Q&A with Sharansky, Kang & Brownback
• Pt. 4, LiNK Protest at S. Korean Embassy
• Pt. 5, The NK Gov’t Reacts
• Pt. 6, Media Roundup
• Pt. 7, Interfaith Panel
• Pt. 8, Were Liberals Underrepresented?
• Pt. 9, Bleat the Press

Andy Jackson’s posts from Freedom House’s December 2005 Conference in Seoul:

• Overview and opening dinner
• Vershbow, Leftkowitz and post-conference fireworks
• The Status of North Korean human rights NGOs in the ROK
• “˜We are not a bunch of pacifists and appeasers.’
• Kim Moon-soo, the anti-Chung Dong-young
• Michael Horowitz’s statement
• Keynote Address by Suzanne Scholte [added by OFK]
• “˜Resolving the nuclear question and NK human rights are not mutually exclusive.’
• On food aid and “˜military first’
• Breaking through Kim Jong-il’s walls of isolation
• All North Korean refugees are political refugees
• NGOs and NK human rights
• The Yangban’s Final Verdict: Summary and Impact

Andy Jackson maintains a must-read blog under the nom-de-plume of The Flying Yangban. He is a university lecturer in South Korea and the leader of Republicans Abroad, Korea.