“And Now We Stand Here, Home and Free”

Welcome home Laura Ling and Euna Lee!

After almost five months of imprisonment in North Korea, American journalists Ling and Lee have finally returned home to California. It’s hard to hold back the tears as you watch them reunite with their families.

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Human rights journalists sentenced to labor camps

When I heard about the detention of two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, by North Korean authorities in March, my first thought focused on their courage and the importance of their mission to document the little-reported stories of North Korean refugees in China.  The Committee for Human Rights in North [...]

North Koreans – victimized over and over

Political prisoner in North Korea

The world rightly is concerned about how the North Korean regime continues to threaten its neighbors with its nuclear capability and, more recently, missiles to deliver them.  However, it is no less urgent to consider how that same regime threatens the security of its own people.  It is all [...]