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In 2012, the Human Rights Foundation created a new prize with a doubly-great title: the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. Why doubly great? Because we always admired Havel and because the idea of “creative dissent” captures so well the difficult, David vs. Goliath nature of resistance to tyrannical regimes. Asia was strongly represented in [...]
We have been remiss to not devote more posts to the ongoing controversies over the efforts of NGOs, some organized by refugees, to penetrate North Korea with large balloons filled with political leaflets. The groups have tried various stratagems to increase the likelihood of the balloons’ cargo being collected, including packing them with money, and [...]
On the day of Osama bin Laden’s killing flogging news on North Korea is flying straight into an informational hurricane but here goes… When we last checked, in response to renewed balloon leafleting, North Korea was threatening to “stage a direct fire at the Rimjin Pavilion and other sources of the anti-DPRK psychological warfare to destroy [...]
On Thursday (Korea time), South Korean activists involved in sending balloons toward the North announced that they were calling off the launch, citing a death in the family of one of the leaders of the effort. But yesterday, Yonhap carried a short article reporting that the the mother of one of the leaders had in [...]
Refugee/defector groups in South Korea have been gearing up for the start of this year’s balloon launch season set to start tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. local time Saturday (or 8 pm Friday here in Washington) if weather permits. The effort is developing into high drama not only in North-South relations but in the South as well. [...]
