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We pass along information abut the following event as a courtesy to our friends at The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights.
On Tuesday, April 10, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) will be organizing a conference on North Korea’s political prisoner camps, hosted by the Peterson Institute for International Economics (1750 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036). The detailed event agenda is available on HRNK's website: hrnk.org. RSVPs should be sent to [email protected] to the attention of Mai Anna Pressley, with mention of which panels the guest will be attending.
HRNK & JBI Present:
Hidden Gulag
Exposing North Korea’s Political Prisoner Camp System &
Calling for Its Complete, Verifiable, and Irreversible Dismantlement
April 10, 2012
8:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
Peterson Institute for International Economics
C. Fred Bergsten Conference Center
1750 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Program Agenda
8:00 a.m. Breakfast and registration
8:45 a.m. Welcoming remarks:
Roberta Cohen
Chair, HRNK
Non-resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Greg Scarlatoiu
Executive Director, HRNK
9:00 a.m. Introductory remarks: Christopher Smith, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives (invited)
9:30 a.m. Panel 1:“Hidden Gulag”
U.S. presenter:
David Hawk
Author, “Hidden Gulag First & Second Edition”
Korean presenter:
Yeosang Yoon
President, North Korean Human Rights Archives, NKDB
U.S. discussant:
Gordon Flake
Executive Committee Member, HRNK
Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation/HRNK
Korean discussant:
Chanil An
President, World Federation of North Korean Refugees (WINK)
Moderator: Nicholas Eberstadt
Board Member, HRNK
Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
10:45 a.m. Coffee break
10:55 a.m. Panel 2: “Born in the Hidden Gulag”
Presenters:
Blaine Harden
Author
Washington Post
Shin Dong-hyuk
Author
Former political prisoner
Korean discussant:
Kang Chol-hwan
Author, “The Aquariums of Pyongyang”
President, North Korea Strategy Center
U.S. discussant:
Gordon Chang
Author, “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World”
Moderator: Marcus Noland
Board Member, HRNK
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute of International Economics
12:15 p.m. Book signing by Blaine Harden and Shin Dong-hyuk: “Escape from Camp 14”
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon keynote addresses:
Ambassador Robert King
U.S. Special Envoy for North Human Rights
2:00 p.m. Panel 3: “Women and the Hidden Gulag”
Korean Witnesses:
Ms. Kim Hye-sook and Ms. Kim Young-soon
Former camp inmates
Korean presenter:
Hyeonja Ku
Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB)
U.S. discussant:
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow, The Hudson Institute
Korean discussant:
Hanna Suh
The Hans Seidel Foundation
Moderator: Suzanne Scholte
Executive Committee Member, HRNK
President, The Defense Forum Foundation
3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:30 p.m. Session 4: “Lessons Learned from the Dismantlement of Nazi Concentration Camps
and the Soviet Gulag”
U.S. Presenter:
Professor Anna Holian
Arizona State University
U.S. Presenter:
Professor Steven Barnes
George Mason University
U.S. discussant:
Robert Williams
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Korean discussant:
Dr. Hyun-Jin Son
Korea Legislation Research Institute
Moderator: Carl Gershman
Board Member, HRNK
President, National Endowment for Democracy
4:30 p.m. Coffee break
4:45 p.m. Session 5: “Seeking Legal and International Human Rights Remedies and Dealing
with Prisoners’ Claims”
Korean presenter:
Kim Tae-hoon
ROK National Human Rights Commission/North Korea Committee of the Korean Bar Association
U.S. presenter:
Jared Genser
President, Freedom Now
Korean discussant:
Roh Jeong-ho
Columbia University Law School/Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia University
U.S. discussant:
T. Kumar
Director, International Advocacy, Amnesty International USA
Moderator: Felice Gaer
Director, Jacob Blaustein Institute
6:00 p.m. Wrap-up
6:15 p.m. Reception for all participants
Hosted by:
Lisa Colarcucio
Board Member, HRNK
Advisor, Impact Investments
Andrew Natsios
Board Member, HRNK
Professor, Georgetown University
Former Administrator, USAID
7:30 p.m. Program concludes