Park Sang-hak, Fighters for Free North Korea: South Korean Police, Stop your Surveillance on Me in the Name of “Personal Protection”

2020-7-9, Park Sang-hak, Fighters for Free North Korea

To: Foreign media outlets

From: Fighters For Free North Korea

Issue date: 07.09.2020

Title: South Korean Police, stop your surveillance on me in the name of “personal protection”

The president of Fighters For Free North Korea, Park Sang-hak, was under police protection since 2008 due to threats from North Korea.

Despite numerous threats I’ve had from the North such as North Korean assassin Ahn Hak-young’s use of a poisonous needle in September 2011, and another North Korean assassin Kim Young-soo’s attempt to shoot me in June 2012, I’ve been requesting the police and the National Intelligence Service to halt my personal protection service because they were restricting me from North Korean Human Rights activities, including the leaflets.

Hitherto, lawful North Korean Human Rights activities have been somewhat limited and suppressed by the police. Albeit, the situations under previous presidents, President Lee Myung-bak and President Park Geun-hye were much better.

The Moon administration has been trying to apprehend Park Sang-hak by invoking the “Kim Yo-jong” law and put surveillance on him in the name of “personal” protection.

My office and home were all revealed to the Kim regime. However, I am not afraid of Kim Jong-un’s threats. Further, I’d consider it an honor if the police who are a puppet of the Moon administration arrest me. Thus, I implore the Moon administration to halt my so-called “personal” protection.

[Note: The Songpa District (in Seoul) Police chief demanded Park submit a written “request to reject police protection.”]