“We have gathered to change the course of history,” said Justin Wheeler, vice president of the California-based Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), at the not-for-profit’s inaugural “Summit” event in June.

Held for supporters of an approach that until last year was “pursuing an end to the North Korea crisis,” Wheeler told his audience of millennial activists that, “Together, we make up and represent this global movement of support that the North Korean people deserve.”

Currently the largest and best-known NGO to focus exclusively on North Korea in the world, feel-good messages of hope and professionally produced events like Summit evidently go down