Genius: HRNK’s Project ChocoPie
A Message from HRNK: Join Us for Project Choco Pie
Dear Friends,
Thank you for supporting HRNK’s mission to promote human rights in North Korea. For 65 years, North Korea has been theheart of darkness, under the three-generation rule of the Kim regime. In the 1990s, as millions starved, North Korea’s leadership spent billions on nukes and ballistic missiles. Despite the regime’s crackdown, small, but resilient markets have since developed, fending off another famine. The smuggled South Korean choco pie has become the symbol of North Korea’s black markets.
As part of our mission, we invite you to partake in “Project CP” in Farragut Square on October 30th, 2013 from 12-1pm. HRNK will give away free choco pies to promote awareness of the current situation in North Korea, as well as discuss the upcoming visit of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea.
Today, the Kim regime continues to ban all freedoms, and up to 120,000 political prisoners remain detained in North Korea’s gulags. Please support HRNK in any way you can–by participating in Project CP, reading our publications, staying informed through our social media platforms, attending the COI hearings on Oct. 30th and 31st at the Kenney Auditorium – Johns Hopkins SAIS, or donating to us–to dismantle North Korea’s system of political oppression and protect those who are seeking to escape it.
More here, and see also Yonhap.
I used to love these things when I lived in Korea, back when I could still eat things like ChocoPies. Liked ’em even better than Moon Pies.