North Korea Prisoners to Receive Human Rights Award
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Three Korean missionaries detained for more than a decade in North Korea will receive the Graciela Fernandez Meijide Human Rights Award in August in absentia. The three men — Choi Chun-gil, Kim Jong-Uk, and Kim Kuk-gi — were helping North Korean defectors and underground churches in Northeast China before North Korean agents arrested them and took them to jails inside North Korea. These awards honor those detained under oppressive authoritarian regimes. Missionary Kim Jong-Uk, 62, served North Korean refugees in China. Authorities arrested him in 2013 after he entered North Korea with Bibles.
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