Sokeel Park 박석길

Activist, Chief Strategy Officer @LibertyinNK

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

The Jangmadang Generation, our doc about North Korean millennials and their role in NK’s social change, was a privilege to work on and is one of my favourite projects.

And it’s now available in TEN languages!
Watch here (and please RT😊)👇
https://t.co/ckWCHt45e2

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

@jackwgreenberg Lived there for many years, and loved it!

[Liberty in North Korea @LibertyinNK]

We’re grateful to share that 11 North Korean refugees have been rescued through LiNK’s networks! 🎉 LiNK is one of the few groups still operating in the underground railroad, forever changed by the pandemic. Thank YOU for making this impact possible.

Photo credit: Eric Lafforgue

[Jean Mackenzie @jeanmackenzie]

NEW: North and South Korea are fighting a war of information. Kim Jong Un might now be winning.
Especially as Trump's aid cuts have hit some of the key organisations working to inform North Koreans.

https://t.co/IYhFV1W9qR

[Liberty in North Korea @LibertyinNK]

The North Korean human rights movement is at a critical crossroads.

Your immediate support is needed. Help ensure that the small community of dedicated organizations working on this issue can continue their life-changing impact.

👉 Learn more: https://t.co/gXaUiglacR

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

I contributed to this report Musk refers to about North Korea. It wouldn't have been possible without the work of NGOs that are now in crisis because of this administration's decimation of foreign assistance.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Out of touch with reality, to say the least

[Jean Mackenzie @jeanmackenzie]

NEW: I sat down with the highest-ranking defector known to have fled the North Korean regime in 8 years.

He told me Pyongyang wants Donald Trump to return to the White House. It would be “a once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity” for North Korea, he said.

https://t.co/N4rQVovoR5

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

Please retweet this to help us find volunteer teachers for resettled North Korean refugees 🙏🙏🙏 THANK YOU!

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

Want to teach English to North Korean refugees?
We currently have twice as many students as teachers!
Requirements:
🟡 Reside in South Korea (Sept to early Dec)
🟡 Native or fluent English speaker
🟡 ESL teaching experience is preferred
Learn more: https://t.co/9dhWFZAZz1.

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

Want to teach English to North Korean refugees?
We currently have twice as many students as teachers!
Requirements:
🟡 Reside in South Korea (Sept to early Dec)
🟡 Native or fluent English speaker
🟡 ESL teaching experience is preferred
Learn more: https://t.co/9dhWFZAZz1.

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

An essay of mine was published by USIP on the how and why of increasing information access for North Korean people. Check it out if you so please. https://t.co/3Hj2aue9kl

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

Congrats @edwardwhitenz! My fav long-form piece of last year by far! https://t.co/0CkT8MsuiQ

[Peter Spiegel @SpiegelPeter]

A big congrats to the @FT's @MilesMJohnson, winner of @opcofamerica's top business award for his investigation into #Prigozhin's biz empire! Also to #Seoul team of @edwardwhitenz & Kang Buseong, runners-up in mag writing...@FT has never been cited in OPC mag category before...

[Ifang Bremer @IfangBremer]

🚨 NEW: North Korea has significantly expanded fencing and security along both of its coastlines since the start of the pandemic, NK Pro analysis has found, in a likely attempt to make it harder for residents to escape by sea.

W/@JacobBogle

https://t.co/kzAKHtZCXv

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

🚨Recruiting volunteers who can help resettled North Koreans learn English🚨

Learn more and apply here!
👉 https://t.co/aBazH8VLK8

And please share 🙏

[NK NEWS @nknewsorg]

ICYMI: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an “intensifying” fight against foreign influence on kids on Monday, instructing mothers to send their children to perform hard labor for the state to correct bad behavior that is not “our style.” https://t.co/vGDYJTLSwQ

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

BBC -Truly shocking report of a North Korean escapee forced to watch a 22-year-old man he knew be shot to death in a public execution. "He was killed for listening to 70 South Korean songs & watching about three films & sharing them with his friends." https://t.co/Xy26Em3yrk

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

"In the early days of Covid, people were "extremely scared". The state broadcast images of people dying around the world.
...
As more people survived Covid, they began to think the state had exaggerated the dangers, he said. "Now many believe it was just an excuse to oppress us."

[Jean Mackenzie @jeanmackenzie]

Mr Kim fled North Korea on a fishing boat with his entire family in May.

In the first interview with a defector to have escaped since the pandemic - he tells us how he masterminded their remarkable escape and reveals new details about life in the country.
https://t.co/M9FbPVCwzl

[Ifang Bremer @IfangBremer]

Reporting on this tragedy has felt like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

The vast majority of people facing forced repatriation were likely simply living their lives, be it undocumented.

In the DPRK, they will face torture, detention, or worse, the UN and experts say.

[Jean Mackenzie @jeanmackenzie]

NEW: Survivors of the Seoul crowd crush are tormented by the lack of accountability - one year on.

Juhyun returns to the Itaewon alleyway regularly - determined to keep her memories alive until there is justice.

The crush paralysed her legs for months. https://t.co/xAYVRKIVlm

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

@danielrtudor oof that is bad

[Sokeel Park 박석길 @Sokeel]

@koreatimescokr @koreatimescokr This is a very insensitively worded headline. Please consider changing it.