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“Wide Gap in Perception” on Abducted SK Citizens

» by GI Korea October 8th, 2007 at 6:48 am » Comments (4)

The sell out of the families of abducted South Korean citizens by the Korean government continues: President Roh Moo-hyun urged his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-il, to ...more »

Finding the Elites of A Collapsed North Korea

» by GI Korea September 28th, 2007 at 8:12 am » Comments (1)

McClatchy has a pretty good article out about the plight of North Korean refugees entering South Korea and the discrimination they face. The article includes some good quotes from ...more »

“F*** You, Comrade Kim Jong-il.”

» by GI Korea August 7th, 2007 at 6:24 pm » Comments (9)

Courtesy of OFK, comes this great interview of a modern day Korean sex slave in China.  Here is a sample of the interview: For a while, all ...more »

NK Refugees Defect to Danish Embassy

» by GI Korea July 13th, 2007 at 7:45 am » Comments (3)

Four North Korean refugees have defected to the Danish embassy in Vietnam and are requesting to be sent to South Korea. more »

Defector Accounts of Life in Camp 14

» by GI Korea July 10th, 2007 at 5:24 pm » Comments (4)

The International Herald Tribune's Choe Sang-hun writes a chilling account of life in a North Korean prison camp from a NK defector: Shin, now 24, was a ...more »

Latest NK Defector Article in NY Times

» by GI Korea June 24th, 2007 at 9:19 am » Comments (7)

Journalist Norimitsu Onishi has been very diligent in featuring articles about North Korean defectors in the New York Times.  Today his latest article has been published which portrays another example ...more »

NK Defectors Arrive in South Korea

» by GI Korea June 17th, 2007 at 9:22 am » Comments (1)

The North Korean defectors that defected to Japan by the crossing the Sea of Japan Sea that Cannot Be Named have finally made their way to South Korea: A couple ...more »

North Koreans Defect to Japan

» by GI Korea June 3rd, 2007 at 10:07 pm » Comments (1)

Here is one of the more amazing and unusual defections from North Korea I have read about: Japan is likely to offer temporary protection to four people believed to have fled ...more »

NK Defectors Go On Hunger Strike

» by GI Korea April 26th, 2007 at 6:51 am » Comments (5)

Thailand is holding roughly 400 North Korean defectors in their jails and has threatened to return them to North Korea.  Now the defectors are all going on a hunger strike ...more »

Civic Groups Demand Asylum for NK Defectors

» by GI Korea April 16th, 2007 at 6:41 am » Comments (5)

A South Korean human rights group protests in front of the Laos Embassy in Seoul to draw awareness to three North Korean defectors captured in Laos that the Laos government ...more »

Thai Government to Return North Korean Defectors

» by GI Korea April 5th, 2007 at 6:55 am » Comments (14)

Here is some breaking news courtesy of OFK: Just caught this story on naver - It seems about 52 defectors have been aprehended by Thai authorities and ...more »

State Department Fails North Korean Refugees

» by GI Korea March 5th, 2007 at 5:59 am » Comments (1)

OFK has the latest on the failures of the US State Department to aid North Korean refugees in China.  The US Consulate in Shenyang's actions directly led to six North ...more »
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