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[Op-Ed] Radio Free North Korea
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2008120617298
DECEMBER 06, 2008 10:04
Joy and sorrow crossed the minds of North Korean defectors and anti-North
Korea activists struggling to let the North Korean people know about their
leader Kim Jong Il´s totalitarianism. The Paris-based Reporters without
Borders (Reporters sans Frontières) has awarded its media prize this year to
Kim Sung-min of Radio Free North Korea, the founder of the Stalinist
country´s first dissident radio station, along with 2,500 euros (3,194 U.S.
dollars). Park Sang-hak, head of the Fighters for a Free North Korea that
disseminates anti-North Korea leaflets to the North, pledged to stop the
practice for the time being. Kim received his award in Paris to global fanfare,
while Park made his decision at the headquarters of the ruling Grand
National Party in Seoul.
The French group said its jury chose Radio Free North Korea to pay tribute
to its courage to broadcast news and information in North Korea, along with
other winners such as a Cuban journalist and two Burmese bloggers. The
media advocacy group apparently considers Kim Sung-min´s activities
despite North Korea´s threat to kill him as fighting for freedom of the press.
This is in stark contrast to ruling party leader Park Hee-tae, who asked
Fighters for a Free North Korea to stop sending anti-communist leaflets to
the North for the time being. So Reporters without Borders encouraged
North Korean defectors to alert the North Korean people of their situation,
while the ruling party chief did the exact opposite.
Both leaders of the two anti-North Korea groups, who are also defectors
from the North, have received more encouragement and support from
abroad than at home. U.S. President George W. Bush invited them to the
White House to praise their commitment. The U.S. government and civic
groups have also offered significant financial support, especially to Radio
Free North Korea. The radio station´s award should make people think about
progressive forces in South Korean society, which have ignored anti-North
Korea activists and defectors who try to tell the truth to those in the North.
Progressive or left-wing groups who physically confronted members of the
Fighters for a Free North Korea and the Family Assembly of those Abducted
to North Korea four days ago welcomed the measure to stop sending the
leaflets. The People´s Solidarity for Social Progress praised the ruling party´s
measure, and urged a complete suspension of sending the leaflets. The
group probably knows that Radio Free North Korea won the award. Though
different in form, broadcasts and leaflets have the same purpose of telling
North Korans the truth about the Stalinist state. So one cannot help but ask
if the progressive groups criticize the award by Reporters without Borders as
a hostile activity against the North.
Editorial Writer Bhang Hyeong-nam (hnbhang@xxxxxxxxx)
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
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