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President Barack Obama
The White House
Dear President Obama,
We, the undersigned, represent concerned expatriate American as well as domestic non-governmental organizations (NGO¡¯s) from the
Mr. President, we continue to grieve over the extraordinary human rights violations suffered by the North Korean people, including a prison system that begs comparison to the gulags perpetrated by Josef Stalin and the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. This is not an abstraction nor hyperbole; more than 20 survivors of the gulag system have made their way to freedom to tell their heart-rending accounts of prisons in the North. Accounts of three generations of family punishment for judicial sentences that never saw the light of a courtroom abound. Human experimentation of biological and poison gas agents are at times carried out on prisoners who have dared to embrace the Christian faith or express the slightest criticism of the all-powerful Kim Jong-il family regime.
Mr. President, we continue to grieve over the extraordinary human rights violations suffered by the North Korean people, including a prison system that begs comparison to the gulags perpetrated by Josef Stalin and the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. This is not an abstraction nor hyperbole; more than 20 survivors of the gulag system have made their way to freedom to tell their heart-rending accounts of prisons in the North. Accounts of three generations of family punishment for judicial sentences that never saw the light of a courtroom abound. Human experimentation of biological and poison gas agents are at times carried out on prisoners who have dared to embrace the Christian faith or express the slightest criticism of the all-powerful Kim Jong-il family regime.
Some North Korean citizens, as you know, flee out of desperation to neighboring
Sir, in the waning months of 2004 your predecessor signed into law the North Korean Human Rights Act that had passed unanimously in the U.S. Congress in October of that year. Despite the overwhelming support for this piece of legislation and the authorization by Congress of resources for NGO¡¯s to help the highly vulnerable North Korean refugees in China, actual inclusion of the authorized funding was never, to our knowledge, included in subsequent national budgets submitted by the George W. Bush Administration. Given the extraordinary plight of the North Korean refugees in particular, we cannot remotely imagine what justification could be offered for this silence and inaction in the face of an overwhelming Congressional expression of the national will to act. We deeply suspect that
The inauguration of your administration, Mr. President, lifted the hopes of the North Korean human rights community that, at last, the issue of the plight of North Korean refugees in
Clearly, such a fearless expression of commitment to women¡¯s and children¡¯s rights demonstrated one very clear rationale for selecting Secretary of State Clinton to guide U.S. foreign policy in the first place! What better place than
Mr. President, we earnestly and respectfully encourage you, during your upcoming trip to China, to speak out in an uncompromising manner to demand that the Chinese leadership immediately halt the forcible repatriation of North Korean refugees in China. This is not to request a favor---it is to simply call
At the same time, we respectfully urge you to address the utter vacuum of human rights among all prisoners in the North Korean gulag system in any future negotiations with the leadership of the DPRK. Many authors and journalists have sought for an apt symbol or descriptive image to sum up the pitiful plight of the nearly 20 million citizens of
In closing, we Americans are justifiably proud, Mr. President, that you are our first African-American head of state. In celebrating that fact, we cannot help but contemplate what symbolic power, what poetic justice would flow from your decision to embrace the agony and champion the hopes of these North Korean slaves of the 21st Century! In short, we are committed to simply, but profoundly, pray that our Heavenly Father will move you to do just that!
Thank you for your time to read this letter and consider its contents and the grave need for immediate action.
With Great Respect and Admiration,
Timothy Peters
Founder/Director
Helping Hands
¡°Assisting North Koreans in Crisis¡±
2.Justice for
3. International Network for North Korean Human Rights Activists
4. The Esther Prayer Network