On Wednesday April 11th some 50 like-minded individuals gathered together in a conference room in the Atreon building in Shinchon downtown Seoul. The common thread that brought them together that evening was a shared concern for the human rights crisis in North Korea. The evening’s agenda included the screening of “North Korea VJ” and the testimony from a North Korean defector who had experienced repatriation.

This was the first event in NK Net’s North Korean Human Rights Speaker Series, which will take place every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8:30pm in Shinchon until May 16th. In the opening remarks, NK Net’s Webmaster