Photos from Saturday’s March and Demonstration for NK Human Rights

I would love to write more, but at least for now, here are some photos from Saturday’s March from near City Hall (actually, just to the right of the Deoksu Palace) to Seoul Station, where we joined a somewhat larger collection of groups assembled to call for freedom for North Koreans and meant to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall.

The woman pictured speaking below is a North Korean survivor of sexual trafficking — the Korean-American next to me said her testimony was extremely horrifying.

Also, I chose the exactly right — or wrong, if I wanted to get photos — time to run inside Seoul Station to use the rest room.    When I got back I noticed there was something splattered all over — including (minorly) on my backpack.  Apparently some man decided to fling kimchi at the speakers and guests.

I put descriptions in the “alt” tag info, so at least in theory you can hover your mouse over each picture for more info (if that fails, you should be able to right-click and select properties to read it).  In particular, check out the blurb for the bottom photo!

Update:   Using Firefox on a PC anyway, the text for each photo doesn’t appear if you hover your mouse, and it’s annoying to read if you right-click.  So I’ve added the text below each photo.  Be sure to read the bottom one.
Getting ready for the march next to Deoksu Palace.

Marchers waiting at an intersection.

Crossing a street on the way to Seoul Station.

Marchers have sat down in the front few rows at the demonstration at Seoul Station.

Woman looking at the signs from the Antihuman Crime Investigation Committee, which wants to bring Kim Jong-il before the ICC.

A survivor of human trafficking in China shares her story.

Tim Peters reads a letter about the North Korean human rights crisis to President Obama (8 days before Obama’s trip to China).

The picket above shows an astounding photo, I believe which must have been taken near the DPRK’s office in New York.  The woman’s sign says to please save her husband from public execution in NK (or does it say he already was executed?) and the man in the middle is identified as an NK ambassador!   I stumbled upon similar photos here several days ago:  http://iccnk.kr/xe/878