Defectors, separated families pray for North Korean reunions on Lunar New Year
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Members of North Korean separated families make an offering at an altar for Lunar New Year near the demilitarized zone at Imjingak Park in Paju, South Korea on Friday. Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI | License Photo
A young boy looks up at his family members as the make offering for their separated North Korean families members. Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI | License Photo
The event in Imjingak Park, known as Seollal in Korea, usually is a formal ceremony and a popular event for New Year Rites. Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI | License Photo
Fighting Kim Jong Un s regime with balloons
As the trial in Kim Jong Nam s murder case got underway in Malaysia on Monday, there s no doubt in North Korean dissident Park Sang Hak s mind as to who the real culprit was. Fabian Kretschmer reports from Seoul.
For Park Sang Hak, the ghastly murder of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un s sibling Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport was more than mere news. The incident evoked traumatic memories for the 49-year-old who himself has been on the hit list of the Pyongyang regime for years.
Park, a slender man with nervous looks, is generally jittery about sharing his whereabouts. To talk to DW, he invited this writer to a small library located on the outskirts of the South Korean capital Seoul. My life is always in danger, said the activist, adding that his goal was to survive the North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un.