April 29, 2022, Washington, D.C. –
One Korea Network (OKN)commends Mr. Park, Sang Hak, Founder and Executive Director of FFNK (Fighters for Free North Korea), on his resumption of balloon launches into North Korea after almost a year-long hiatus due to the Moon administration’s harassment via police investigations and court trials under the so-called ‘anti-leaflet bill’ that went into effect in March of 2021.
According to the press release from FFNK, Mr. Park and his colleagues launched 20 large balloons carrying over a million leaflets and other materials, along with two large banners with one that featured a picture of ROK President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, and highlighting his transition from a prosecutor to president-elect, earlier this week on April 25-26 somewhere in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
“It is great news to see Mr. Park has resumed his balloon launches, in a rebuttal against the North Korean regime’s parade celebrating its army’s founding, as well as a rebuttal against the Moon administration’s ‘anti-leaflet bill’,” said Arthur Lee, the Director of OKN.
“We hope that the incoming Yoon administration will reverse, or limit, the ‘anti-leaflet’ bill that was passed last year,” said Henry Song, Director of Government Relations at OKN. “The past five years of shameful kowtowing by the Moon administration towards Kim Jong Un will thankfully come to a stop, now that President-elect Yoon will take the reins of power in South Korea very soon, so we have hope and expectations that the situation will improve for North Korean defectors and activists in South Korea,” said Song.
OKN hosted Mr. Park, along with his younger brother, Mr. Park Jung Oh, who sends plastic bottles filled with rice and USBs via the ocean through his organization Kuen Saem, during a visit to the United States last year, and also successfully pushed to have their testimonies included in a Congressional Hearing held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission last April.
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