Comments on: Unreliable witnesses https://www.policyforum.net/unreliable-witnesses/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Thu, 25 May 2017 10:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Helen Kim https://www.policyforum.net/unreliable-witnesses/#comment-9048 Thu, 25 May 2017 10:41:00 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=5569#comment-9048 Thank you for your article. There is one inaccuracy I noticed that has to be clarified. You say Kwon Hyuk (former security officer in North Korea’s prison camp 22) “disappeared from public life” immediately following the BBC’s 2004 documentary. But Kwon has done extensive interviews as recent as 2013 with German director Marc Wiese (as reported by the Guardian):
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/19/north-korea-prison-camp-14-documentary

He is featured in that documentary making awful confessions. Whether or not they are true, he didn’t disappear after the 2004 documentary as you asserted. He’s continued to make public appearances.

Mr. Hyuk also spoke at length in 2008 at a conference in Japan organized by a very respected and credible NGO on this issue:
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2008-01-kwon.htm

Thank you once again for your article.

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