I would like to thank Janet Parshall for talking about this on her program today and sharing the sound from this conference.
If you are interested in hearing the sound you will be able to hear it on Janet's archives for today's date in the second hour.
WASHINGTON, DC, July 8, 2005 -- North Korea's horrific human rights crisis will be the focus of a first-ever international conference, to be held July 19, 2005 in Washington, DC, Freedom House announced today..
The conference, titled "Freedom for All Koreans," will feature Kang Chol Hwan, a defector to South Korea and author of "The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag," and Natan Sharansky, former Soviet dissident, political prisoner and Israeli cabinet minister, and author of "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror."
The conference will take place at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. The gathering is part of Freedom House's new Human Rights in North Korea Project, a year-long campaign to galvanize world opinion and alleviate the plight of the 20 million Koreans suffering under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Il.
Conference details, including an agenda, are available online. The agenda also follows below this alert.
