UN Commission on the Status of Women 2025
Join us next week for a series of events featuring an esteemed panel of individuals who have helped rescue thousands of North Koreans will describe the conditions in North Korea that lead people to want to escape their homeland, the “underground railroad” they helped develop, and the current situation facing North Koreans in China today since the borders’ reopening. Among the panelists will be one of the rescuers featured in the award winning documentary Beyond Utopia as well as a mother who risked her own life to personally rescue her two sons.
About the Speakers
Pastor Seungeum KIM of Caleb Mission, South Korean Pastor, featured in the award-winning documentary BEYOND UTOPIA, has rescued over one thousand North Koreans since 2000 when he first established his network; Jiah PARK, a North Korean escapee, described as the “Harriet Tubman of North Korea” helped set up the first most successful underground railroad of North Korean escapees, Chinese citizens, and South Koreans which over two decades successfully led to the rescue of approximately seven thousand North Korean refugees; LEE Kyung-sun, a North Korean escapee, currently heads Unification Hope Mission which has successfully rescued over fifteen hundred North Korean refugees and is also helping support trafficked North Korean women and their children in China; and Hannah JI, a North Korean escapee, survivor of Chinese and North Korean detention centers and North Korea’s political prison camps personally rescued her two sons just before the border closure despite repeated warnings against her taking the risk.
Topics They Will Address During Their Presentations: 1) the conditions in North Korea that lead people to want to escape their homeland, 2) the conditions in China facing North Koreans, 3) the “underground railroad”, 4) the current situation facing North Koreans in China today since the borders’ reopening, and 5) their recommendations for solving this crisis
Public Events
Tuesday, March 18 – Washington DC
12:30-2:30pm | DFF Congressional Defense and Foreign Policy Lunch Forum 2044 Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. RSVP required by COB Monday to rsvp (at) defenseforumfoundation.org Lunch buffet provided: (acceptances only) |
Doors Open at 6:30pm Meeting at 7:00pm Dinner at 7:30pm | North Korea Freedom Coalition Welcome Dinner Online and in-person at Sorak Garden, 4308 Backlick Rd, Annandale, VA RSVP required by COB Monday by clicking here. $30.00 Dinner Paid in Advance or at the Door. No charge for online attendees. |
Thursday, March 20 – New York
6:30-8:00pm | UN CSW Parallel Event Church Center of the United Nations (CCUN) 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, New York, NY RSVP required by clicking here. |