TNKR was one of the co-hosts of a Human Rights Forum at the National Assembly, to mark the 48th year that the criminals in North Korea have held onto 11 people it abducted in 1969 (it allowed 39 to return on 2/14/70).
-- Date & Time: February 13, 2018 (Tuesday), 2PM~4PM
-- Venue: National Assembly Members’ Office Building, Meeting Room #9 (Room #212)
-- Theme: The moral imperative of repatriating the victims of North Korean abduction
-- Opening Remarks: Rep. Hong Il-pyo (Chairperson, National Assembly Human Rights Forum) was scheduled to lead the meeting but Rep. Kim Jong Seok stepped in.
-- Keynote Speaker: Hwang Cheol (Representative, KAL Abductees’ Families Association)
-- Campaign Intro: Peter Daley (Assistant Professor, Sookmyung Women’s University)
-- Panelists:
* Signe Poulsen (Director, UN Human Rights Office-Seoul)
* Kim Seok-woo (Former Vice Minister of Unification)
* Lee Jung-hoon (Former Ambassador for Human Rights / Professor, Yonsei University)
* Casey Lartigue Jr. (Co-founder, Teach North Korean Refugees)
-- Organizers: National Assembly Human Rights Forum, KAL Abductees’ Families Association, Teach North Korean Refugees (TNKR)
Dave Fry, TNKR Assistant Director was the MC.
Youngmin Kwon, Project Manager of the Bring My Father Home Campaign, was the main organizer.
Eunkoo Lee, TNKR co-founder, organized and helped in many ways behind the scenes, as usual.
Documentary shown at the forum:
Thanks to Shaquille James for the high quality photos.
