North Korea – Jihyun Park’s Personal Story



North Korea is a totalitarian state where tens of thousands of people are enslaved and brutalised. Jihyun Park escaped twice from North Korea and now has refugee status in the UK where she works for the European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea as North Korean Outreach and Project Officer. Her story is of fleeing near-starvation in North Korea to China, only to be torn away from her son and forced back to the country she fled and imprisonment until her second successful escape.

Jerry Allen, Amnesty International UK's country coordinator for North Korea, will also give an update on AI's view of the current situation there.

Date: Tuesday 18 October 2016
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York YO1 9RL
Entrance by donation

Organised by the York local group of Amnesty International UK

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Our group's next monthly meeting takes place on Tuesday 13 September at 7.30pm at the usual venue (York Friends Meeting House on Friargate).