Dear Friends and Supporters of HRNK,
On Tuesday, December 2, please keep HRNK in your thoughts and prayers. We need your generous support. Defunded by the U.S. government under the previous and the current U.S. administrations, HRNK is facing an existential crisis. We have been telling the truth about North Korea’s crimes against humanity since 2001. State Department funding assisted our satellite imagery investigation of North Korea’s political detention, workers officially dispatched overseas, and information environment, beginning in October 2014. That support vanished in March 2023. Without your help, downsizing will occur, unfortunately to the point where the very existence of HRNK may be in jeopardy.
North Korea’s Kim regime procures the funds needed to fuel its nuclear and missile programs as well as other tools of death by oppressing and exploiting its people at home and abroad. To this day, 200.000 North Korean men, women, and children are imprisoned at North Korea’s kwan-li-so political prison camps, pursuant to the yeon-jwa-jae system of guilt by association. The Kim regime is more than a Korean peninsula or regional threat. The human rights-security nexus it has generated is now threatening international peace and security, through the exportation of instability and violence to Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
A UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accredited NGO since April 2018, HRNK can continue the good fight only with your help.
Please donate to HRNK. In addition to your personal assistance, we implore you to put us in contact with any grant agency or other potential donors you may know, that may be willing to support our mission.
Our Board member David Maxwell made a most compelling case for support to HRNK, in two recent articles:
Why Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Must Be Funded – Now More Than Ever:
https://www.upi.com/Voices/2025/10/27/perspective-committee-for-human-rights-North-Korea/6181761599619
Regime Fears the Truth: How HRNK Gives World Its Most Powerful Weapon against North Korea:
https://www.upi.com/Voices/2025/11/10/perspective-human-rights-north-korea/5071762787247/
To fund HRNK, please mail a check to 1801 F Street NW, Suite 305, Washington, DC 20006 or use the following link:
https://www.hrnk.org/donate/
The best way we can answer your generosity is to continue to ardently seek freedom, justice, democracy, and economic opportunity for the people of North Korea.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
Have a Blessed Holiday Season,
Sincerely,
Greg Scarlatoiu
President and CEO, HRNK
