Posted on 12/26/2009 2:09:39 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. rights activist crosses into North Korea - reports
Jon Herskovitz, Reuters December 26, 2009, 4:00 pm Send
SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. human rights activist trying to raise global attention about the suffering of the North Korean people has crossed into the reclusive state, other activists and South Korean media said on Saturday.
There has been no comment from North Korea, which usually arrests foreign border crossers on site, or from U.S. officials.
Activists told Reuters that Robert Park, 28, had crossed into North Korea from China on Friday, while South Korea's Yonhap news agency and the Kukmin Ilbo newspaper quoted activists who went with him to the border as saying he had crossed at a sparsely patrolled point near the northeast border city of Hoeryong.
Park was quoted by activists who went with the border as shouting when he went across: "I am an American citizen. I am bringing God's love. God loves you."
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"I don't want President Obama to come and pay to get me out. But I want the North Korean people to be free," Park said on Wednesday before departing for China.
(Excerpt) Read more at nz.news.yahoo.com ...
http://chogabje.com/board/view.asp?C_IDX=30520&C_CC=AZ
To Mr. Kim Jong Il and North Korea's Leaders:
I proclaim Christ’s love and forgiveness towards you today. God promises mercy and clemency for those who repent. He promises forgiveness for every sin and re-birth through the Holy Spirit for those who believe Christ died for the atonement of all their sins, as a sacrifice from God, given in love. He is the true and living God. He loves you and wants to save you and all of North Korea today. Please open your borders so that we may bring food, provisions, medicine, necessities, and assistance to those who are struggling to survive. Please close down all concentration camps and release all political prisoners today, and allow care teams to enter to minister healing to those who have been tortured and traumatized.
All we are asking is for all North Koreans to be free, safe and have life.
With Love, Respect and Goodwill Towards All People,
Robert Park 12/25/2009
1) Vision Concerning Korea
On July 27th, 2009, "The Global Day of Repentance and Prayer for an Unified Korea", God gave a vision and instruction concerning the necessity for mass, united demonstrations to arise for North Korean Liberation and Human Rights He revealed in the days which followed that through a constant, united, mass demonstrative movement;
1) There would be Liberation and Redemption for the North Korean People (Including An International Movement of Compensation and Re-imbursement for Immeasurable Loss and Suffering)
2) Korea would be Unified (With Worldwide Support)
3) The Unified Korea will become truly Emancipated (freed from the influence/control of other nations)
4) There will be Profound Reconciliation between North and South Koreans (as a result of South Koreans demonstrating sacrificially and unitedly for their North Korean brothers and sisters)
2) Freedom and Life for All North Koreans: 2009
An estimated 7,000,000 people are starving to death right now in North Korea...
Virtually nothing is being done for these people...
An unknown number (at least 250,000) are dying in concentration camps of the most horrifying brutality and torture in North Korea right now having committed no crime...
Virtually nothing is being done to save their lives...
By murder rate (an estimated 1,000 persons everyday), the North Korean human rights crisis and genocide is the worst in the world today and demands immediate intervention...
Yet somehow there has been no action from the United Nations and International Criminal Court to indict Kim Jong Il’s regime of genocide and crimes against humanity...
The silence of the international community and responsible governments (America, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan) is heartbreaking and appalling...
In September of 1989 protests and demonstrations began which led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the unification of Germany...
On the 20th anniversary of these demonstrations, people from all over the world will begin unceasing demonstrations and protests which will lead to Korea’s unification.
Please join the global movement to demand freedom and life for all North Koreans.
- Contact television, print and radio media in your area and country, imploring them to raise awareness about the North Korean human rights crisis.
- Volunteer to be a coordinator or worker in your area to raise awareness and organize demonstrations for the liberation of North Koreans.
- Let us know if we can help you connect with others committed to human rights for all North Koreans in your area, to work together.
- Be a part of the greatest demonstration in Korea’s history, forcing the liberation of all North Koreans and facilitating Korea’s unification... NOW.
3) LETTER OF DEMANDS TO THE WORLD COMMUNITY:
To the Leaders of Korea, America, China, Russia, Japan, the United Nations and the International Community,
We Refuse to Allow the North Korean Holocaust to Continue Any Longer. Over 4,000,000 Innocent North Koreans have been Murdered by Kim Jong-Il’s regime since 1995, and an estimated 1,000,000 North Koreans have been Murdered as a result of Slave Labor, Rape, Torture, Starvation and Execution in North Korea’s Political Concentration Camps. The Very Existence of these Concentration Camps makes the North Korean State Illegal, Illegitimate, and Criminal, and Demands The Immediate Intervention of the International Community.
Our Demands, based upon the foundation of International Law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are as follows:
1) The Immediate and Total Liberation of All North Korean Political Concentration Camps
2) Compensation and Re-imbursement to All North Korean Victims of Slavery, Starvation, Torture, All Concentration Camp Survivors and North Korean People for Immeasurable Loss and Suffering
3) The Immediate Stepping Down from Power of Kim Jong-Il and North Korea’s Leaders
4) The Immediate Stepping Down from Power of All Government Leaders in South Korea Who Have Been Accomplice to, Allied With, or Supporting Kim Jong-Il’s Genocidal State
5) Through the Guidance and Oversight of a Coalition of North Korean Refugee Leaders, in Partnership with President Lee Myung Bak and the International Community, WE DEMAND THE LIBERATION AND REBUILDING OF NORTH KOREA BASED UPON THE FOUNDATION OF ENSURING AND GUARANTEEING WITHOUT FAIL THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAFETY OF EVERY NORTH KOREAN INDIVIDUAL ACCORDING TO THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, WHICH WAS COMPOSED TO PREVENT THE ATROCITIES OF NAZI GERMANY FROM EVER OCCURING AGAIN. WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, HAVE ALL FAILED TO KEEP OUR PROMISE AND UPHOLD INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND MOST MISERABLY IN THE CASE OF NORTH KOREA.
Freedom and Life For All North Koreans: 2009, A Worldwide Coalition of North Korean Human Rights Groups, Ministries and Activists
Ping!
Well I wish Robert Park good luck with that.
I’m sure all his demands will be guaranteed.
Mixed emotions here.
It’s a powerful statement, but too much like the tale of the “Grasshopper Vs. the Lawnmower”.
Uh huh, Kim will jump right on that list of demands.
You know the idiot will be changing his mind on that rescue in about three days. How many of my tax dollars will be wasted on his stupidity, how many good men will have to risk their lives to negotiate his release, and how many wasted gov/military hours will those negotiations take?>
Wow! God bless and go with this brave man!
May God give power to all who would do likewise....
Life and freedom for those in North Korea!!!
Deliverance from the evil that has gripped them for so long!
Oh, dear Lord, may this dream indeed become reality in 2009!
Quick. Send in the B-52’s
No, he won’t change his mind.
And not a single US tax dollar will be spent trying to rescue him.
Don’t you understand - they who loved not their lives unto death???
This man is serving God - may God bless and multiply his brave efforts!
I’m in agreement with this man. North Koreans are eating grass (when it’s summer) while their “leaders” dine sumptuously.
“9: There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21: And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22: And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23: And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24: And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25: But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26: And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. “ - Luke 16:19
The next five verses are very interesting, too. They’re about people who don’t believe someone who comes back from the dead.
Your day is coming, Kim.
Any chance we can infect Kim Il Jong & the North Korean military with anthrax, aids, or a very severe case of the crabs?
Would be the best Christmas the people of North Korea ever got!
Let the dumbass go; he knew what he was getting into — no use wasting any resources on him.
Is this guy crazy?????
NOO great band not that B-52 LOL!
Yeah, right after Obambi releases his vault copy of the birth certificate, and Kerry releases his full unredacted SF 180.
Cheers!
You got a lotta nerve calling this brave man names. What the hell does YOUR tagkine mean anyhow?
His tagline "Spearhead" is that of the 3rd Armored division.
But Obama said we stopped torturing.
I wish him “God speed”, but seeking martyrdom usually does not work out is my impression.
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