Helping North Korea’s survivors of gender-based violence
"My mission is to have the refugees – both men and women – have this dialogue so they can share their ideas on how to catalyze peace on the Korean Peninsula"
Betsy Kawamura in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dec. 2013 | Image: NK News
With an online platform, and some training in how to use it, North Korean refugees around the world could help each other, and maybe draw attention to the struggles North Koreans face both inside and out of their native land.
At least that’s Betsy Kawamura’s theory, and she knows something about trauma, and what happens when it goes unaddressed.
With an online platform, and some training in how to use it, North Korean refugees around the world could help each other, and maybe draw attention to the struggles North Koreans face both inside and out of their native land.
At least that’s Betsy Kawamura’s theory, and she knows something about trauma, and what happens when it goes unaddressed.
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Rob York is director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. He previously worked as a production editor for The South China Morning Post and chief editor of NK News. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in Korean history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.