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Viewing cable 08SEOUL2078, AMBASSADOR HOSTS SCHOLTE TO CONGRATULATE ON SEOUL

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08SEOUL2078 2008-10-23 05:01 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Seoul
VZCZCXYZ0000
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHUL #2078 2970501
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 230501Z OCT 08
FM AMEMBASSY SEOUL
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2056
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 4878
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW PRIORITY 9039
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO PRIORITY 4992
RUEHSH/AMCONSUL SHENYANG PRIORITY 3845
UNCLAS SEOUL 002078 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PREL KS KN
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR HOSTS SCHOLTE TO CONGRATULATE ON SEOUL 
PEACE PRIZE 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  The Ambassador hosted a luncheon in honor 
of the 2008 Seoul Peace Prize recipient and North Korean 
human rights activist Suzanne Scholte on October 11, 2008. 
Scholte reflected on her twelve years of experience working 
to improve the human rights of North Koreans and highlighted 
the needs of North Korean refugees.  Among others, Vice 
Foreign Minister Shin Kak-soo, Seoul Peace Prize Cultural 
Foundation Chairman Lee Chul-seong, Free North Korea Radio 
Director Kim Seong-min, and Fighters for Free North Korea 
Chairman Park Sang-hak joined in a full discussion of the 
human rights situation in North Korea.  End Summary. 
 
2. (SBU) Ms. Scholte, in Seoul to receive the prestigious 
Seoul Peace Prize in recognition of her efforts to improve 
the human rights situation in North Korea, recounted her 
experience of twelve years working on the issue.  Of all the 
North Korean human rights challenges, she said the plight of 
North Korean refugees, particularly, was as bad as it had 
ever been. 
 
3. (SBU) Scholte encouraged more support for radio broadcasts 
to North Korea and balloon drops of pamphlets there as a 
means of loosening Kim Jong-il's iron grip on the people. 
Free North Korea Radio Director Kim Seong-min said that 
recent surveys of defectors showed that North Koreans were 
listening to Free North Korea Radio broadcasts.  Fighters for 
Free North Korea Chairman Park Sang-hak said that recent 
evidence from defectors of a DPRK crackdown on people in 
possession of illicit pamphlets dropped by balloons indicated 
the effectiveness of the information campaign. 
 
4. (SBU) The Ambassador emphasized the importance of the U.S. 
and the ROK working together on North Korean human rights and 
also underlined China's role.  Vice Foreign Minister Shin 
said the ROK wanted to confront the DPRK over its human 
rights abuses and at the same time draw the DPRK to the 
negotiating table.  The Lee Administration would be more 
aggressive than its predecessors in dealing with North Korean 
human rights -- for example, by supporting the UN Third 
Committee's upcoming resolution condemning the North Korean 
human rights situation -- but ultimately, if there was to be 
any improvement, North Korea had to come to the negotiating 
table. 
 
5. (SBU) Former ROK Ambassador to the UN Park Soo-gil said 
that denuclearization and human rights were not an either-or 
proposition; each had to proceed in parallel.  He said that 
the attention Scholte's receipt of the Seoul Peace Prize had 
drawn in the local and international media was an indication 
of the level of concern shared around the world for the 
people of North Korea.  Park said governments and 
nongovernmental organizations each had a role to play, and, 
by working together, he hoped progress would be made on human 
rights in North Korea. 
 
6. (U) Note:  The Seoul Peace prize was established in 1990 
to commemorate Korea's success in hosting the 1988 Olympic 
Games.  Previous winners of the prize, which is awarded 
biennially, include former International Olympic Committee 
President Juan Antonio Samaranch, former U.S. Secretary of 
State George P. Shultz, Doctors without Borders, former UN 
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former UN High Commissioner for 
Refugees Sadako Ogata, Oxfam, former President of the Czech 
Republic Vaclav Havel, and Dr. Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen 
Bank of Bangladesh. 
 
7. (U) Participants: 
 
Ambassador Stephens 
Suzanne Scholte, Chairman, North Korea Freedom Coalition 
Sin-u Nam, Vice Chairman, North Korea Freedom Coalition 
Kim Seong-min, Director, Free North Korea Radio 
Park Sang-hak, Chairman, Fighters for Free North Korea 
Lee Chul-seung, Chairman, The Seoul Peace Prize Cultural 
Foundation 
Park Soo-gil, Former ROK Ambassador to the UN 
Shin Kak-soo, Vice Foreign Minister 
Shin Dong-ik, MOFAT Director General International 
Organization Bureau 
Cho Yoon-su, National Assembly Member 
Joe Yun, Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs 
Patrick Linehan, Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs 
Bill Harwood, Friends of Korea Board Member 
Stephen Wickman, Consul General, Shenyang 
Phyllis Wickman 
Kim Mi-yeon, Interpreter 
Craig Hall, note taker 
STEPHENS