On Wednesday, November 11, Dordt’s Justice Matters Club will be hosting a presentation by LiNK (Liberty in North Korea), an organization dedicated to ending the North Korean human rights crisis and assisting refugees from North Korea. A team of LiNK volunteers (called “Nomads”) on a 10-week tour across North America will come to Dordt to screen the documentary “Seoul Train,” which chronicles the efforts of hundreds of thousands of North Korean refugees to escape to freedom.
The screening is in room S101 in the Science Building, at 7:00 PM. The event is open to the public. Mark your calendars!
From the SEOUL TRAIN website:
Today, there are an estimated 250,000 North Korean refugees living underground in China. They escaped a food crisis and other persecutions at home that have claimed the lives of approximately 3 million in the past 10 years. As the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stands idly by, the Chinese Government – in direct violation of international laws to which it’s a party – systematically arrests and forcibly repatriates hundreds of these refugees each month. Defecting from North Korea is a capital offense, and repatriated refugees face human rights abuses ranging from concentration camps and torture to forced abortion and summary executions.
For a lucky few refugees, however, there is hope. A group of multinational activists has taken it upon themselves to create an Underground Railroad. Via a network of safe houses and escape routes, the activists – at great personal risk – help the refugees on daring escapes to freedom over thousands of miles of Chinese territory. This is an odyssey where betrayal and deceit lurk around every corner, and the price of getting caught likely means death. It’s an epic tale involving years on the lam living in underground shelters, North Korean and Chinese agents, double-crossings, covert border crossings, and the terror of what happens if they get caught.
Come see Seoul Train to learn more about this hidden human rights crisis, and what you and I can do to help.
www.seoultrain.com
www.linkglobal.org
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