Promoting Freedom and Human Rights for North Korea

• DFF Chairs North Korea Freedom Week to Promote Freedom and Human Rights for the North Korean People
  Once again the Defense Forum Foundation chaired North Korea Freedom Day which was first held April 28, 2004, and credited with leading to the unanimous passage of the North Korea Human Rights Act. In 2005, DFF expanded the day to include over a week’s worth of events and programs promoting the freedom, human rights and dignity of the North Korean people.

• North Korean Defectors Announce New Alliance at DFF Forum During North Korea Freedom Week
  As part of the events for North Korea Freedom Week, defectors from North Korea were featured at DFF’s Capitol Hill forum to announce the formation of the Exile Committee for North Korea Democracy (ECNKD).

• Half A Century in the Hellish Nightmare: South Korean Pows Tell Their Story; DFF Presents Them Freedom Award
  Working with Korean War veteran Dr. Thomas Chung who heads the Korean POW Rescue Committee, DFF hosted a forum with Chang-Ho Cho and Chang-Seok Kim, two former South Korean POWs who had recently escaped from North Korea having been held since the Korean War. The forum was entitled “Half a Century in the Hellish Nightmare: South Korean POWs Tell Their Story.”

• DFF's Work Leads to Congressional Hearings on Radio Broadcasting, Horrors Facing Refugees in China
  Following the April visit of North Korean defectors during North Korea Freedom Week, DFF hosted North Korean defectors again in July and October. Included in the delegations were long-time friends: Kim Seung-Min, director of Free North Korea Radio, and Kang Chul-Hwan, one of the first defectors DFF hosted back in 1998.

• International Activism Continues: DFF Keynotes Conferences in Seoul, Tokyo
  DFF Participates in International Conference on North Korea Human Rights and Refugees, Leads Demonstration against China’s Violent Repatriations.

• Congressional Testimony on North Korea
  The Defense Forum Foundation helped organize the very first hearing ever held in Congress to expose North Korean’s human rights abuses which was held in April 1999.
  

• Example of Major Speech on North Korea Policy
  The Defense Forum Foundation has given numerous speeches on North Korea policy since it became involved in promoting freedom and human rights for the North Korean people in1996.

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