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Liberty In North Korea
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LiNK exists so that, one day, the human rights and refugee crisis in North Korea will not. We educate, protect, advocate, provide for and empower the North Korean people so that one day, they will have the opportunity to live in true freedom with options.
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In 2004, two passionate individuals learned about what was happening in North Korea and felt a burden to share with the rest of the world what had gone unnoticed for too long.

Educating a group of college students and young leaders about the crisis, together they

formed LiNK, or Liberty in North Korea, with the hope of spreading awareness and effecting real change. LiNK quickly grew and became a movement of activists empowered by the stories of refugees and motivated by the urgency of the issue. The all-volunteer group began participating in protests, petition drives and public awareness campaigns. In December of 2004, LiNK sent two teams to the border of China and North Korea on a fact-finding mission to interview North Korean refugees and to investigate the conditions they faced. It was on this trip that we discovered North Korean orphans living on the streets where they were vulnerable to traffickers, abuse and death. Action had to be taken. Before leaving China, we established Project: Safe Haven, our first underground shelters. Over the following four years, we grew our network of underground shelters in China, expanding into Southeast Asia as well.

With our first headquarters office established in 2005 in Washington, DC, we focused our efforts around advocacy and policy, awareness and field programs in the underground and became a significant voice in the grassroots movement, helping to pass key legislation and advocating for asylum-seeking refugees. By mid-2008, we shifted our direction and strategy with a new president and in the beginning of 2009, moved our headquarters operations to Los Angeles to focus more heavily on building up the movement and expanding programs domestically and abroad.

Today, LiNK’s work focuses on providing an end-to-end solution for the crisis in and

around North Korea, beginning with awareness through mobilizing the grassroots and

telling stories of hope and survival through creative media. We also continually expand underground efforts to protect and assist more North Korean refugees in China and Southeast Asia, bringing more refugees through the Underground Railroad to freedom in the US, South Korea and Europe. And finally, we provide supplementary assistance to North Koreans once they have been resettled and are beginning their new lives. We continue to meet with governments, NGOs and institutions to advocate for this issue and have since evolved into the leading organization for the North Korean human rights and refugee crisis.

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  • Shin Dong Hyuk speaks about his experiences growing up in a North Korean prison camp.
  • Benefit gala attendees read about propaganda in North Korea.
  • "Night Of" Webcast host Matt Wood intervews a LiNK volunteer
  • Keynote Speaker Lisa Ling
  • One of LiNK's many tour stops to schools around the country.
  • LiNK "Nomads" visit schools to talk about the issue.
  • One of the many young people raising funds for LiNK's refugee shelters.
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  • North Korean soldiers walking to “middle ground” between China and North Korea
  • Mary, a North Korean refugee, is currently hiding in China until she can escape with LiNK's help.
  • A North Korean refugee in China seeks help after escaping her country.
  • A North Korean boy playfully hides from LiNK staff.
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