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Acclaimed cellist Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 headlined a benefit concert on Friday for North Korean refugees organized by a newly-recognized undergraduate group dedicated to human rights in the country...
Harvard Undergraduates for Human Rights in North Korea (HRiNK)—officially recognized by the College just last Tuesday—sponsored the event to raise money and awareness for North Korean defectors. Forty people filled the Cabot House Living Room, helping HRiNK raise...
...five Japanese citizens were returned to the country after being kidnapped and forced to instruct North Korean agents on Japanese culture and society; Pyongyang at the time said the rest were dead - a claim the victims' families dispute. Since then, the remaining abductees' fate has become a hot-button issue in Japan. "It's a heart-rendering story, and involves issues of sovereignty and human rights," notes Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. "The issue has taken on a life of its own." The government has called the kidnappings "acts of terrorism"; former Prime...
...only with the help of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, who made an emergency stop in Bali, that negotiations got kick started. The South Korean, in office for less than a year, is known as diplomatic even by UN standards, but he arrived without mincing words. "Frankly, I am disappointed at the lack of progress," said Ban to a packed audience. "Seize the moment, this moment, for the good of all humanity...
...Amongst the Korean community on campus, people already know about Paul, and it’s going over lists...but I’m not sure that people outside the Korean communities know,” Pak says...