U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
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The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) "is a bi-partisan, human rights organization that has obtained 501(c)3 nonprofit status. Launched in 2001, the Committee was created to generate a broad base of interest about conditions in North Korea and to conduct and publish research focusing U.S. and world attention on human rights abuse in that country," [1] in the context of the U.S. drive for regime change and advanced invasion plans for country.
Contents
Gulag Report
In 2003 they published a report titled "The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea’s Prison Camps Prisoners’ Testimonies and Satellite Photographs" that was authored by David Hawk.
Using South Korean activist groups and commercial satellite imagery, they claimed North Korea had a large number of political (as opposed to criminal) prisoners imprisoned in a prison camp system. This is use of 'open source' intelligence, made so infamous by Bellingcat and White Helmets, where information from groups with a strong agenda (the Seoul-based Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights) is whitewashed and made more credible by being quoted as unbiased sources. Grainier commercial satellite photos is preferred over military satellite photos, firstly to not let sharper images and analysis ruin the impressions created, and secondly to give the U.S. military and intelligence services cleaner hands if false or incorrect information should be exposed.
The Acknowledgments of this report read:
- "The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea expresses its deep appreciation to the Seoul-based Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (Citizens’ Alliance) and the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet) for arranging interviews in South Korea. An additional interview was arranged by Pnan, a refugee assistance group.
- "Obtaining the satellite images for this report would not have been possible without the support of DigitalGlobe, a spatial imaging and information company based in the United States. The Committee expresses its deep appreciation for DigitalGlobe’s support, and for its important contributions in the field of satellite imaging.
Executions
In April 2015, HRNK and AllSource Analysis, Inc. discovered what they claimed to be a commercial (i.e. not high resolution) satellite image of an execution by anti-aircraft machine guns at the Kanggon Military Training Center outside of Pyongyang. The report on this sensationalist finding, “Unusual Activity at the Kanggon Military Training Area in North Korea: Evidence of Execution by Anti-aircraft Machine Guns?,” garnered significant media attention, including coverage by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The authors also spread to media reports from South Korean groups of the executions of two generals and an unknown number of artists by anti-aircraft machine gun in 2013. These claims have not been corroborated by any other information.
Members
- Debra Liang-Fenton - Executive Director
Officers and Directors
- Morton Abramowitz
- Gary Ackerman
- Jaehoon Ahn
- Richard V. Allen
- Lisa Colacurcio
- Rabbi Abraham Cooper
- John Despres
- Chuck Downs
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- Phil Fishman
- Gordon Flake
- Carl Gershman
- Helen-Louise Hunter
- Fred Charles Iklé
- Steven Kahng
- Mark Kirk
- Helie Lee
- Thai Lee
- James Lilley
- Joseph Pitts
- Samantha Power
- Jack Rendler (Chair)
- Suzanne Scholte (Treasurer)
- John Shattuck
- Stephen J. Solarz
- Roberta Cohen - Former Director [1]
Known members
12 of the 59 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Morton Abramowitz | A key player in determining recent U.S. foreign policy. |
| Richard Allen | US National Security Advisor, Cercle, Iran-Contra... |
| Irwin Cotler | Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada 2003-2006. "Totally unabashed defender and supporter of Israel". Member of numerous spooky think-tanks. |
| Nicholas Eberstadt | Involved in a lot of deep state think tanks and planning committees. |
| Carl Gershman | President of the National Endowment for Democracy since it was founded in 1984. His entire career has been in and around CIA-connected entities. |
| Garry Kasparov | chess champion turned Putin critic. |
| Vytautas Landsbergis | Anti-Russian Lithuanian politician |
| James Lilley | Spooky diplomat who oversaw 1989 Tiananmen Square regime change attempt as Ambassador to China |
| Winston Lord | Former Bilderberg Steering committee, bonesman, CFR |
| Andrew Natsios | |
| Samantha Power | Developed angle of "Responsibility to Protect" to create justification for wars |
| Stephen Solarz |
