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Speakers at the
North Korea Freedom Day
in Washington DC

April 28, 2004

Began at 11:00 AM

Invocation: Rev. Thorn Wee Myung
Senior Pastor of Jerusalem Presbyterian Church
Chairman, Korean American Church Mission

Senator Sam Brownback (Kansas)
Sponsor of the North Korean Freedom Act

Congressman Joseph Pitts (PA-16)
Co-sponsor of the North Korea Human Rights Act

Ah Hyok (NKD) & Kang Cheol Hwan
Co-Founders of the Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag

Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-2)
Co-sponsor of the North Korea Human Rights Act

Carl Gershman
President of the National Endowment for Democracy
Founder the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Master of Ceremonies reads statement from Roni Bart
Israeli-Jewish Committee against Gas Chambers in North Korea

Rev. Lee, Won Sang
Rretired pastor of the largest Korean Church in USA, KCPC
Co-Chairman of KWMC Korean World Mission Council

John Hanford
Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom; Washington, DC

Nina Shea
Vice-chairman, US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Kim Bum-soo
Commission to Help North Korean Refugees

Barrett Duke reads statement from Dr. Richard Land
From the Southern Baptist Convention

Master of Ceremonies reads letter from Ambassador James Kelly

Soon Ok Lee
North Korean defector
Survivor of the political prison camps

Congressman Ed Royce (CA-40)
Chairman of US-Republic of Korea Interparliamentary Exchange Co-sponsor of North Korea Human Rights Act

Pastor Chun Ki Won
Head of Durihana Mission
Jailed in China for 8 months for helping North Korea refugees

Shimada Yoichi
National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea

Master of Ceremonies reads statement by Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Simon Wiesenthal Center

Kim, Sung Ho
President, Korean War Abductees Family Union

Congressman Jim Leach
Sponsor of the North Korea Human Rights Act
Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific

Representative of Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, a Japanese non-profit organization that shelters North Korean Refugees hiding in China

Representative reads statement from Hwang, Jang yop
Highest ranking defector from North Korea

Congressman Donald Payne (NJ-10)

Mariam Bell reads statement from Chuck Colson
Prison Fellowship

Dr. Kim, Hyun Uk
Former Chairman of Foreign Relations for South Korean Parliament

Representative of Helping Hands Korea
Founded originally to get food to North Korea during the famine but now also involved n sheltering and rescuing refugees

Closing Prayer by North Korean Defector: Kim, Tae Jin
North Korean defector
Imprisoned in a political prison camp for his faith