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Anju Links, including how to host your own NK political prison camps exhibition

Not the same as Joshua, but here are a few links I’ve found interesting of late.

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PSCORE’s regularly been posting news articles in English the last few months (don’t see RSS, sent them an email about that maybe a month ago).

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Host your own NKHRs exhibition:  SAGE Korea, the group that held an exhibition on North Korea’s political prison camp system, “Where Love Does Not Exist,” is putting its contents on the web for download so other groups can host the exhibition themselves.  Would seem to be perfect for LiNK chapters or other groups to raise awareness at your campus, church, or corner coffee shop.  Note, you will need to contact them — I’m not sure everything had been uploaded yet (though there’s already lots of good stuff that includes English), and there are a few restrictions on usage (eg, not for commercial use).

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If you’ve ever wondered about the South’s assistance and programs for former North Korean refugees, there’s a nice, shiny brochure available for download from the Ministry of Unification’s publication’s page.  See “MOU brochure – The ROK government helps North Korean refugee resettlement.”  Also of interest, “Unification is Inevitable.”

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A program on the North’s propaganda machine.

(side note – isn’t the traditional music in the background in this video Japanese? or is this style also in the North?  I’ve only heard it while visiting Japan, never in South Korea.)

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Probably not new for many of you, but was for me:
Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland, Jennifer Lee Blog

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The latest edition of the big, fat NKHRs white paper by the Korean Bar Association came out late last year (link to the PDF for the Korean version).  And surely produced at great expense, there is an English version which we have a copy of at our office, but for some inexplicable reason they haven’t posted it on their website as of yet.

Alas, the KBA’s not the only organization around here that seems to do 99% of the work for its (potential) English audience but then not go the extra centimeter to make good on all that time and money spent!   BUT I’m not here to just complain — I think if only a few of us contact them (I tried this, haven’t heard back) or better yet call them (82-2-3476-4000), maybe they’ll get the message and post the English PDF on their website, or at least email it back to you.

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Singer and former NK refugee Kim Bok Ju‘s got a new album out — and sporting a new look, too.   You may remember her from this JFNK benefit concert.

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  2. Just FYI, the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) has been making considerable efforts to make more of its publications available in English. English-language .pdf files of all past editions of KINU’s White Paper on North Korean Human Rights can be viewed online at
    http://www.kinu.or.kr/eng/pub/pub_04_01.jsp?category=2672

    KINU’s “Online Series” papers by resident scholars are also now being translated into English on a regular basis. These can be accessed at
    http://www.kinu.or.kr/eng/pub/pub_05_01.jsp?bid=EINGINSIGN

  4. The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK presented his annual report to the UN Human Rights Council on 14 March:

    “Just like his predecessor, Mr Darusman was continuously refused access into the DPRK and was thus forced to base his report on visits to Japan and the Republic of Korea where he met with government officials, NGOs, UN representatives, and victims of human rights abuses from the DPRK. Mr Darusman emphasised that he will keep trying to gain access to the DPRK and engaging with the authorities in the future.

    …in its usual manner, the DPRK strongly affirmed its ‘categorical and resolute rejection’ of both the Special Rapporteur and his mandate, stating that the report originated from the forced adoption of this county-specific mandate by the Council as part of a ‘conspiracy by the USA, Japan, and the EU with the aim to eliminate the DPRK State and social system under the pretext of human rights’.”

    From ISHR: http://www.ishr.ch/council/1029-council-struggles-to-respond-to-dprks-non-cooperation

    Today the mandate of the SR on the DPRK was renewed with the most positive votes to date.

  7. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/03/25/2011032500488.html

    That was quick.

    Soon after South Korea refused to forcefully repatriate 4 of the 31 North Koreans who apparently drifted south of the Northern Limit Line, 9 more North Koreans have defected via the sea.

    North Korea’s adamant demands for the immediate repatriation of all 31 wayward travelers appears to have some reasoning behind the demand. If North Koreans realize that the Lee Myung Bak administration will not forcefully repatriate defectors, why continue living in a “socialist paradise”?

    It’s still early, but I see this becoming a focus point for Kim Jong Il. Kim cannot have people openly defecting, and the LMB’s policy on defectors is surely irritating the porcine majesty.

  13. How the hell do you conduct a tour of Google’s headquarters for a North Korean delegation?

    HELLO! Welcome to Google’s worldwide headquarters. Come see our big screen computer!
    “OK, here’s a Google Earth image of the Korean peninsula…. at night….OH!…. ummm; sorry…..moving on….
    “Well, here’s how Google image search works; say you type in somebody’s name…like “Kim Jong-il” for example…you’ll immediately see a set of….OOPS! Oh shoot! …uh…sorry….so ummm,
    follow me and I’ll show you all the employee break room…. want a Snickers?

  15. N. Korea orders nationals in Libya ‘not to return’, in an apparent bid to block news of civil uprisings tinyurl.com/3bu3wpq