Defectors share untold North Korea stories
Defectors share untold North Korea stories
2024-08-23
A group of North Korean defectors in Seoul has started a news website aimed at exposing North Korean human rights abuses. They also want to provide a more nuanced perspective about their homeland, as VOA’s Bill Gallo reports from the South Korean capital.
When North Korea appears in global newscasts, it’s usually scenes like this that dominate. The country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, overseeing a weapons test.
But those kinds of martial images obscure much of what’s really going on in the country, says North Korean defector Lee Seong-min.
Lee Seong-min
NK Insider
North Korea is more than nuclear weapons and Kim Jong Un. There are a lot of people with different perspectives and hopes and goals for the future of their country.
Lee fled North Korea in 2012. He now helps run a website called NK Insider, whose goal is to elevate North Korean voices.
Lee Seong-min
NK Insider
A lot of people are talking about North Korea, scholars and experts, but there are subtle differences when you hear the voices of North Koreans who lived there in that system.
About eight North Korean defectors write for the website, launched earlier this year. They communicate secretly with sources inside North Korea for their reporting. Some don’t want to appear on camera.
Zane Han, a former Pyongyang resident, fled North Korea just two years ago.
Zane Han
North Korean sefector
Nobody can imagine what the situation is inside North Korea, what the people experience inside North Korea – really as a slave inside North Korea. I was there. I know.
Han is one of very few North Koreans to recently make it to the South.
That’s because North Korea has tightened border security since the pandemic.
Lee Shin-wha
Former South Korean Ambassador for North Korean Human Rights
It’s getting more and more difficult to see new defections from North Korea. Ordinary North Korean people’s chances, I think, are almost zero.
Lee says one of his goals is to speak for North Koreans who have no voice and cannot leave.
Lee Seong-min
NK Insider
To give a platform to North Korean defectors and by extension to those still living in North Korea.
Doing what he can to provide a more nuanced perspective of his homeland.
Bill Gallo, VOA News, Seoul, South Korea.
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脫北者架設新聞網站 揭露北韓的人權侵犯情況
2024-08-23
位於首爾的一群北韓脫北者特別架設新聞網站，目的在揭露北韓的人權侵犯情況。他們還希望提供對他們祖國更細膩的觀點。來自美國之音的報導。
當北韓出現在全球新聞中時，通常是北韓領導人金正恩在視察飛彈測試的報導。
然而，北韓脫北者李成民認為，這種軍事形象掩蓋了該國實際發生的許多事情。
[[NK網站創始人李成民]]
"北韓不僅是核武器和金正恩。那裡有很多人，他們對國家的未來，抱持不同的觀點、期待和目標。"
李成民在2012年逃出北韓。現在他運營一個叫做NK Insider的網站，目的是提高脫北者的聲量。
[[NK網站創始人 李成民]]
"許多人正在討論北韓，包括學者和專家，但當你聽到在那種制度下生活過的北韓人的聲音時，你會發現其中有些微妙的差異。"
約有八位脫北者為這個網站撰寫文章。他們秘密地與北韓內部來源交流，撰寫報導。有些人並不希望出現在鏡頭前。
化名韓贊，一名前平壤居民，兩年前從北韓逃出。
[[北韓脫北者 韓贊]]
"沒人能夠想像北韓裡面的情況，北韓人民經歷了什麼。真的就像奴隸一樣，我經歷過，所以我知道。"
韓是近期成功逃到南韓的少數北韓人之一。
這是因為自從疫情爆發以來，北韓加強了邊境安全。
[[南韓前北韓人權大使 李信和]]
"越來越難看見新的脫北者。一般國內老百姓脫逃的機會，我認為近乎於零”
李成民說，他其中一個目標是為那些沒有發言權且不能離開的北韓人發聲。
[[NK網站創始人 李成民]]
"給予北韓脫北者，以及那些仍在北韓生活的人們一個發聲的平台。"
李成民希望盡可能提供他對祖國更細膩的觀點。
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