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Hyok Kim</span></span></strong><span
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <span
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North Korean Defector<br>
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Symposium <em>Veritas </em>2025</span></span> </div>
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Peninsula Issues and US National Security </span></span></u></strong>
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13 2025 7:00 PM –</strong><strong> 8:30 PM EST Washington DC</strong><br>
February 14 2025 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM KST Seoul JST Tokyo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">We are pleased to
share with you that GumHyok Kim will address the virtual <em>ICAS</em>
Winter Symposium <em>Veritas </em>2025 with a particular
emphasis on "What's Happening In Koreas?" on February 13, 2025,
Washington DC.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GumHyok (GH) was born
in Pyongyang, North Korea (NK) in 1991. He grew up as a part of
NK's elite class and entered Kim Il Sung University. In 2010, GH
went to study in Beijing and had a life changing experience. The
discussions with students from western countries and the
information from the internet enabled him to realize the
horrific truth of NK that had been kept hidden from him:<br>
the political prison camps, deaths from starvation, public
executions, and people risking their lives to escape. He felt a
deep sense of betrayal and was furious that all the education
and histories he had been taught were lies. GH became determined
to share with other NK people this newfound knowledge, and
started dangerous discussions about human rights and democracy
with other NK friends studying in Beijing. The purpose was to
change NK to a normal state. But his group was discovered by the
NK authorities and he had to flee in 2012 from Beijing to South
Korea (SK) to avoid arrest. After becoming a SK citizen, GH
graduated Korea University majoring in Political Science and
International Relations.<br>
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Currently, GH is a TV news panelist, “Radio Free Asia” analyst,
NK human rights activist, and a Youtube Influencer at “Seoul
Pyongyang Couple”. He gave an NK human rights speech in the UN
Security Council in 2024 and was a main speaker emphasizing the
freedom of speech in One Young World in 2018.<br>
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His career continued as a policy advisor at the Ministry of
Patriots and Veterans Affairs in SK in 2023. In 2023 and 2024,
GH worked as a Member of the Unification Future Planning
Committee at the Ministry of Unification. He joined the support
team as an analyst in the 20th Presidential Committee in 2022.<br>
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