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Monday 20 June 2011

Tuesday 28 June, 6-8pm, Room 4A, House of Lords: - All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea

The Sixth Form at St Catherine’s are very fortunate to have been invited to attend this meeting which will  include the taking of evidence on North Korea’s prison camps, including presentations by a defector from North Korea, Kim Joo-il, who served in the North Korean military, and Kim Hye-Sook, who spent 27 years in the prison camps and was first jailed when she was 13 years old. 

Kim Hye Sook who used to live in the No. 18 Bukchang Camp for 23 years,
describes human rights violations in the camp, indicating the directions of the camp drawn by her.

Amnesty International will show its new film and satellite photographs of the prison camps, and Kim Hye-Sook’s drawings depicting life in the camps will be displayed.