by STEVE HAN North Korea publicly acknowledged the existence of its labor camps for the first time, apparently in response to a highly critical U.N. human rights report, but dismissed…
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Wednesday’s Link Attack: Kim Jong-un, NK Death Camps, Danji Restaurant
…very early to be producing such propaganda. Inside Kim Jong-il’s Death Camps FrontPage Mag Clearly detailed satellite photos released by the South Korean government reveal a rapidly growing network of…
First-Hand Accounts of Japanese American Internment Camps in ‘Order 9066’ Podcast
A podcast detailing the experiences of 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps during World War II will debut on Feb. 19, on the 76th anniversary of the executive order that…
John Kerry Urges NKorea To Shut Down Prison Camps
by STEVE HAN U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry demanded the North Korean government to close its prison camps that “bring shame” on the country on Tuesday, reported Reuters. Kerry’s…
Carl Higbie: ‘Japanese Internment Camps A Precedent For National Muslim Registry’
A prominent Trump supporter’s suggestion that Japanese internment camps are a “precedent” for a national Muslim registry has set off concern throughout the nation. Carl Higbie, a former spokesman for…
George Takei live-streams visit to Japanese American internment camp
…he said were much bigger than the one he was forced into as a child. Takei’s family was among the thousands the U.S. government locked away in internment camps. When…
Amid UN Scrutiny of Its Human Rights Record, NKorea Lodges Rape Allegation at Activist Shin Dong-hyuk
…girl in 2001, and alleged that he had fled the country to escape charges. The statement also dismissed Shin’s testimony about his experiences in North Korea’s prison camps, calling them…
5 Quotes By Fred Korematsu That Remind Us To Say ‘Never Again’
Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American civil rights leader most famous for his refusal to go to the internment camps during World War II, resulting in a controversial (and still…
George Takei Is Producing A Graphic Novel About His Japanese Internment Experience
George Takei is producing a graphic novel about his family’s experience in Japanese internment camps during World War II. Readers will see the story through the eyes of a young…
Rohingya Muslims Are Being Wiped Off Myanmar’s Map
…piling into wooden boats that take them to sprawling, monsoon-drenched refugee camps in Bangladesh. In a speech Tuesday, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi did not address a U.N. statement…
I Am KoreAm: Shannon Iris (Soo-Young) Buckley
…labor camps. I have been lucky enough to have been in contact with Shin Dong-Hyuk, the only known survivor who was able to escape a labor camp in North Korea….
A Generational Threat: The Disturbing American History Of Anti-Asian Discrimination
…of World War II of over 120,000 Nikkei, two-thirds of them American-born citizens, in internment camps surrounded by barbed wire and sentry towers. In 1942, children in San Francisco’s so-called…
Review: ‘Asian Americans’ Docu-Series Illuminates A Different Side Of American History
…of the Chinese Exclusion Act and a conspicuous glossing over of the World War II Japanese internment camps are the most Asian American students can expect to hear about the…
Man With a Mission
…we need to take the cross for them,” Park told Reuters Dec. 22. “And if [Kim Jong-il] kills me, in a sense, I realize this is better. Then the governments…
UCLA seeks former students who were interned during WWII
…the southern California campus when discriminatory federal orders sent them to internment camps. An estimated 200 Japanese Americans were attending UCLA at the time. On May 15, the university will…
