The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea | Escape from North Korea, pt. 2 @committeehrnk | Uploaded February 2013 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Date: September 19, 2012
Escape from North Korea (Encounter Books) is a rare good-news story from the world's most repressive state, a compelling account of the people who dare to escape and the Good Samaritans who help them.
In her new book, Hudson Senior Fellow and former Wall Street Journal editorial board member Melanie Kirkpatrick describes the secret network of safe houses and transit routes that carry North Koreans hiding in China to safety in neighboring countries. The conductors are brokers motivated by money, as well as Christians motivated by faith. In violation of its obligations under international treaties, China's policy is to repatriate the North Koreans and arrest their rescuers.
Just as escaped slaves from the American South educated Americans about the evils of slavery, the North Korean fugitives are informing the world about the secretive country they fled. They are also sowing the seeds for change within North Korea itself by channeling news back to their information-starved homeland. They are a bridge to a free and unified Korea.
Author Melanie Kirpatrick was delighted to meet with South Korean correspondents in Washington, D.C. and Korean American journalists in our area, hoping that this press briefing will help inform the South Korean public and the Korean American community on the valiant efforts to rescue North Koreans and bring attention to the plight of North Korean refugees in China and beyond.
Date: September 19, 2012
Escape from North Korea (Encounter Books) is a rare good-news story from the world's most repressive state, a compelling account of the people who dare to escape and the Good Samaritans who help them.
In her new book, Hudson Senior Fellow and former Wall Street Journal editorial board member Melanie Kirkpatrick describes the secret network of safe houses and transit routes that carry North Koreans hiding in China to safety in neighboring countries. The conductors are brokers motivated by money, as well as Christians motivated by faith. In violation of its obligations under international treaties, China's policy is to repatriate the North Koreans and arrest their rescuers.
Just as escaped slaves from the American South educated Americans about the evils of slavery, the North Korean fugitives are informing the world about the secretive country they fled. They are also sowing the seeds for change within North Korea itself by channeling news back to their information-starved homeland. They are a bridge to a free and unified Korea.
Author Melanie Kirpatrick was delighted to meet with South Korean correspondents in Washington, D.C. and Korean American journalists in our area, hoping that this press briefing will help inform the South Korean public and the Korean American community on the valiant efforts to rescue North Koreans and bring attention to the plight of North Korean refugees in China and beyond.
