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).
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.
