October 2, 2009 • 12:22 pm 3
In the past few weeks, nine North Korean refugees have sought asylum at the Danish Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, while another 11 hopped on a small barge and crossed over during the evening of October 1st into South Korean waters. Both of these cases hint at a key piece of the puzzle in keeping the struggle against the Hermit Kingdom‘s human rights violations on the front U.S. burner: the visually arresting soundbyte.
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August 11, 2009 • 1:22 pm 0
The Big Picture book ends of Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s misadventures in North Korea are the possible unintentional endangerment of refugees and refugee helpers through the seizing of materials at the border (vtideotapes, cell phone(s), notebook(s)), and the future role these journalists may play in the plight of the people they were covering. According to aid workers, no stream of female refugees has a higher rate of sex trafficking – 80% to 90% – than that of North Koreans fleeing their country.
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