North Korea Freedom Week 2009 Acknowledgments

For Hosting, Organizing and Speaking at NKFW Events:
 
*Ed Borcherdt of the Korean War Memorial Foundation, Wreath Laying Ceremony
*Pastor Sharon Lee and International Calvary Church, Candlelight Vigil and Prayer Services
*Nancy Purcell and Linda Dye, North Korea Genocide Exhibit and Sin U Nam for the exhibit materials
*Congresswoman Diane Watson and Congressman Ed Royce, Young Kim and Hunter Strupp, Capitol Hill screening of Crossing
*Ambassador Stephen Bosworth and Sung Kim for hosting a meeting for the defector delegation leaders
*Department of State- Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) Bureau for hosting special sessions for current and future grantees working for North Korea human rights promotion
*Department of State- Office of Religious Freedom for hosting meeting with visiting defector delegation to discuss religious persecution
*Kim Tae Jin, Kim Young Soon, and Jung Gwang-il of the Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag for hosting demonstration at the Holocaust Museum
*Jeff Park, Sue Logan, Alyssa Woo, Jane Yang and the North Korea Freedom Coalition for all the logistics for the Capitol Hill Rally
*Mah Young Ae and the Pyongyang Musical Mission Troupe and Jeff Park and the Seoul Presbyterian Church Praise Band for music at the rally
 
Thank you to our Capitol Hill Rally Speakers: South Korea's Human Rights Ambassador Jhe Seong Ho, Senator Sam Brownback; Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen; Congressman Ed Royce; Congressman Dana Rohrabacher; Members of the Japan's House of Councillors Masahisa Sato and Ichiro Tsukada; President of the International Forum for Foreign Policy and National Security Dr. Hyunuk Kim and his delegation form South Korea, National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman; Freedom House Executive Director Jennifer Windsor; Amnesty International North Korea Advocacy Director Jack Rendler; Reporters Without Borders Washington Representative Lucie Morillon; James Standish of the US Commission on Religious Freedom, Shigero Iizuka and Teruaki Masumoto of AFVKN, Ed Borcherdt of the Korean War Memorial Foundation; Lindsay Vessey of Open Doors; Pastor Heemoon Lee of NKFC, Steve Kim of 318 Partners, Michelle Kim of PSALT, Free North Korea Radio director Kim Seung Min, Democracy Network Vs the NK Gulag Kim Young Soon and Association of the Returned Abductees Ko Meung Soeb, and for opening and closing prayers Pastor Sharon Lee and Pastor Kwang-Ho Yang
 
*Lindsay Vessey and Open Doors, organizing visits to Members of Congress
*Ambassador Jack Pritchard and Korea Economic Institute for hosting program with Professor Vitit Muntabhorn, UN Special Rapporteur on DPRK Human Rights; KEI panel page with video and Rapporteur's report (View)
*Marcus Noland and the Peterson Institute panel with Ambassador Jhe Seong So, and former DPRK Colonel Choi Joo Hwal, translation by Peter Kang (View video session)
*Chuck Downs and the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea for hosting event to Release New Report on the Trafficking of North Korean Women with speakers Ambassador Mark Lagon, Debra Liang-Fenton, and eyewitnesses Bang Mi-Sun and Kim Young-Ae, translator Heesug Chung; link to view Press Conference will be posted at hrnk.org and DVD available of press conference.
*Congressman Trent Franks and Tina Ramirez for hosting KIMJONGILIA screening with the film's director and producer N.C. Heikin
*Congressman James McGovern, Congressman Frank Wolf, and the Tom Lantos Congressional Human Rights Commission, Hans Hogrefe, Elizabeth Hoffman and Tina Ramirez with speakers Choi Joo Hwal, Kim Tae Jin, Kim Seung Min, Park Sang Hak, Michael Magan, and Ken Isaacs and translator Pastor John Lee
*Bruce Klingner and the Heritage Foundation and speakers Congressman Ed Royce, NED President Carl Gershman, Joel Charney of Refugees International, Roberta Cohen of Brookings Institution, Jared Genser of Freedom Now; (View video at Heritage Foundation website)l
*Ana Jang and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, GPPI IPD Track, GU Korean Student Society, and PSCORE with speakers Kim Young-il, Han Young-jin, and Laura Elizabeth Pohl
*Charlotte Oldham Moore, Toy Reid and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China for hearing focusing on refugees in China including plight of North Korean refugees with speakers Joel Charney and Suzanne Scholte; Transcript will be posted here soon. (View CECC page with info on NKFW09 panel session)
*Defense Forum Foundation and speakers Kim Seung-Min, Kim Young Soon, Ko Meung Soeb, Bang Mi Sung, Park Sang Hak and Kang Chul Ho; for event translators: James Victory, Dennis Halpin, Steve Kim, Peter Beck, Peter Kang, Justin Oh, Henry Song, Hyoju Kim, Helen Lee, Pastor Heemoon Lee; for a transcript email: henry@defenseforum.org
*Jeff Park, Sue Logan, Alyssa Woo, Jane Yang and the North Korea Freedom Coalition for handling logistics for the Protest at the Chinese Embassy, Jeff Park and the Seoul Presbyterian Praise Band for the music, and
 
Thank you to our Protest Speakers : NKFC Vice Chairman Pastor Heemoon Lee, Amnesty International North Korea Advocacy Director Jack Rendler, and NGO leaders from the Visiting North Korean defector delegation: Kang Su Jin, Kim Tae Jin, Kang Chul Ho, Mah Young Ae, and Kim Seung Min and for our Grim Reaper Hu Jintao/Kim Jong Il Lloyd Dye
 
For coverage of the protest see Epoch Times website and Christianity Daily DC (Korean text)
 
For Hosting Special Meetings, Luncheons, Dinners and Interviews for the Visiting Defector Delegation
Cynthia Bunton and Dena Kozanas and the International Republican Institute
Ambassador Jhe Seong Ho
Department of Justice
Department of State
John Knause and the National Endowment for Democracy
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
William Kim and the Voice of America
Frank Jannuzi and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dr. Jo Jangwan and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the USA
North Korea Freedom Coalition
Defense Forum Foundation
PSALT (gift bags for the defector delegation)
 
For Hosting the Defector Delegations and Providing Transportation :
Pastor Heemoon Lee and Hana Church for hosting and providing transportation for the defectors
Henry Song, Hyoju Kim and Chester Gore for escorting and providing transportation for the defectors
Pastor Kwang-Ho Yang and the Fairfax Korean Church for letting us use their van
Pastor Sharon Lee and the International Calvary Church for letting us use their van and providing drivers
 
For Opening Their Homes to Visitors for NKFW 2009 :
Jane Yang, Housing Coordinator
Susan and Pavel Klein
Mariam Bell
Katrin Vandar Vaart
Mijin Park
Jim Geheran
Lisa Kim
 
And Those Who Came from Across the USA for Events the Entire Week :
Nancy Purcell from Pennsylvania
Linda and Lowell Dye from Ohio
The Korean American Freedom Alliance: President Mark Lee, Paul Hwang, Jae Hak Yang,
Kyung-ho Yeo, and Howard Lee from Washington see their YouTube Video
Lisa Madewell and her daughter from Tennessee
 
For Promotional Work for NKFW :
Sue Yoon Logan (website, posters and flyer design, T-shirts, press and speaker packets)
Jei Park (poster design)
Jerry Dykstra (press-overall)
Mark Sauter (press-DC)
Hyoju Kim (press interviews and scheduling)
 
For Round the Clock Press Coverage of North Korea Freedom Week Events :
Radio Free Asia
Voice of America http://www.voanews.com/english/About/2009-05-01-NOKOR-defectors-visit.cfm  and http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-01-voa9.cfm
Free North Korea Radio
 
For Special Statements for North Korea Freedom Week :
Governor Kim Moon Soo of Gyeonggi Province
Robert Wood, Acting Department Spokesman, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Hwang Jang Yop, highest ranking North Korean defector, Co-Chair Free North Korea Radio
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
 
For Joining in Solidarity with NKFW with events and action :
Alice Jones and Open Doors-United Kingdom
Kan Ando in Tokyo, Japan
Jack Kim of Hanvoice in Toronto, Canada
Robert Park and the Global Justice Prayer Network
 
And most important of all our visiting North Korean Defector Delegation:

Delegation Leader: Kim Seung Min
Delegation Coordinator: Oh Min Jae
Choi Zoo Hwal with Mr A and Mr B
Kim Tae Jin
Park Sang Hak
Kang Su Jin
Kang Chul Ho
Kim Young Il
Eom Myung Heui
Joo Sung Il
Jung Gwang-Il
Kim Young Soon
Jung Eun Hye
Bang Mi Sun
Kim Young Ae
Ko Meung Seob
Oh Tae Woo
Bak Chun Hwa
Lee Sam
Mah Young Ae
Byun Sang Ho
Lee Young Hee
Kim Tae Rim
Shim Mi Sook
Kim Yeon Hwa
Kim Eun Ju
Choi Hyo Sung
Kim Min Sung
Jeon Eun Heui