To start off your week, KEI just published my post on obstacles to humanitarian aid delivered to North Korea. So grateful for this opportunity, and the chance to learn so much from Sung-Yoon Lee, Greg Scarlatoiu, Jieun Baek, and Robert Manning. keia.org/the-peninsula/…

Public diplomacy should be considered an essential tool in achieving U.S. long-term policy objectives, Jieun Baek wrote. belfercenter.org/publication/po…

Watch if you missed this important talk with Hyun-Seung Lee and Mr. Ri-Jong Ho on International human rights day at the Belfer Center!

One of my favorite things about what I do in #advocacy for #Northkorea #humanrights is meeting and working with the best people! The Korea Society thank you for hosting. Hannah Song & Jieun Baek you are both such #RoleModels and Im grateful for all your work you do for the NK people

Richard Gowan Michal Mlynár Carrie McDougall Andrew G Hyde Martyn Williams, Peter Ward, and Steven Denney will all present recently published reports about the North Korean government and its illicit consumption of foreign information. 📌RSVP for April 27 at 9 am EDT: stimson.org/event/hackers-… 2/3

This morning, we're publishing new research that details a nascent hacker underground inside North Korea. It's still small, but is the first sign of a more technically sophisticated pushback against government information controls. Event at 9am EDT lumen.global/project-reveal

“The North Korean government is investing more legal, social, penal and technological resources to keep North Koreans in an information vacuum” - Jieun Baek Belfer Center fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Christian Davies Financial Times ft.com/content/e0dd36…

North Korea’s ‘nascent hacker underground’ playing ‘cat and mouse’ with regime ft.com/content/e0dd36… covering Martyn Williams's latest research, link: lumen.global/reveal-report

Here's @wired on a new report today by myself and Niklaus Schiess and ERNW on North Koreans attacking state information controls. wired.com/story/north-ko…

While I & other #NorthKorean activists attending Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF), we're hearing the unbelievable news that on Monday in Geneva, #NorthKorea will become Chair of the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament. UN Human Rights Council 📌 #HRC59 is fully aware of the UN #COI report 2014 and crimes against humanity in NK?

Hanhtoo Khantpaing and I wrote an article on #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar and the impending executions of Jimmy, Zayar Thaw, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw and why they matter so much even in the face of the never ending stream of violence that the SAC has inflicted on Myanmar 1/3

Four renowned political activists in #Burma are facing execution by the SAC (military junta that took over the country in an illegitimate coup on Feb 1, 2021). Read Hanhtoo Khantpaing and Richard Roewer piece about this -- we can try to stop this!

In H1 of 2022 only 19 North Korean refugees made it to South Korea. 16 female, 3 male. This is a lower rate than any point this century, and a direct result of pandemic-related restrictions on movement, especially in China.

HRNK cordially invites you to: The 18th General Meeting of the #IPCNKR Please RSVP by clicking this link: forms.gle/osiVVmC1TC24cf… Greg Scarlatoiu Raymond Ha #kimjongun #hrnk #FreedomofOpinion #FreedomofExpression #humanrights #freedom #CrimesAgainstHumanity #DACORBaconHouse

Be sure to RSVP to our virtual program on the outside world's attempts to reach the North Korean people. Don't miss this fascinating discussion with Dong Hyuk Lee, Chief of VOA 한국어, Dr. Jieun Baek, Belfer Center Fellow & Jonathan Corrado policy director: bit.ly/3dQ6fq5