North Korean Holocaust Exhibition
NORTH KOREAN HOLOCAUST EXHIBITION
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING, YOIDO, SEOUL
NOVEMBER 8, 9, & 10, 9 a.m. ““ 6 p.m.
The North Korean Holocaust Exhibition will include a special Panel Presentations and discussions with North Korean refugees, politicians and human rights activists.
The U.S. Defense Forum Foundation, Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, the Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, and Helping Hands Korea, will Sponsor and moderate panels as part of the North Korea Holocaust Exhibit. Many other organizations will be contributing material for the exhibit as well as participating in these panels.
In addition to the numerous and powerful displays at the Exhibit depicting North Korea’s death camps, China’s detention centers, hunger, atrocities, and the plight of refugees, panel discussions will be led by leading North Korean human right activists including Kim Sang Hun, Tim Peters and North Korean defectors themselves.
NORTH KOREA HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT SPECIAL PANEL
DISCUSSIONS:
PANEL 1: North Korea’s Death Camps
2-3 pm, November 8
Sponsor: Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag
Moderators: Ahn Hyok, Kang Chul Hwan
Panelists: survivors of the North Korean gulag describe the horrors of North Korea’s death camps and ways that activists can work to end these atrocities.
PANEL 2: Terror in China: Plight of North Korean refugees and their rescuers
10-11 am, November 9
Sponsor: Helping Hands Korea
Moderator: Tim Peters
Panelists: refugee survivors describe the terrors they faced as refugees in China while rescuers, jailed in China for helping North Korea refugees, describe their inhumane treatment; positive strategies for helping refugees will be discussed.
PANEL 3: North Korea: World’s Worst Violator of Human Rights
10-11am, November 10
Sponsor: Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights
Moderator: Sang Hun Kim
Panelists: experts cover the scope of violations of the North Korean regime from the denial of basic human rights to all people, the kidnapping of South Korean citizens, the kidnapping of Japanese citizens and descriptions of Kim Jong-il’s illicit drug and counterfeiting, terrorist activities. They will show why North Korea is known as the world’s worst violator of human rights.
In addition to the above, there will be the documentary film, Seoul Train by Jim Butterworth and Lisa Sleeth of the U.S. on the screen at the big conference room next to the lobby, everyday, and another documentary film by the reporter-activist, Mr. Ishimaru Jiro, everyday.
Norbert Vollertsen, Seoul, Nov.6, 2004