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Helping Starving North Korean Residents [Helping Hands Korea is a FCF Project in Seoul, South Korea, which began a program "The Ton-a-Month Club" to sponsor desperately needed grains being sent as famine-relief to the North Korean civilian population. The following article, reprinted here in part, appeared in the February 7th edition of the Korean edition of Newsweek: ] By Kang Tae-uk, Newsweek Korea, February 7, 2001. Since June 1996, [Tim Peters] has been managing a non-government organization called "Ton a Month Club" to help the starving North Korean residents. ... The TMC that [Peters] founded five years ago collects donations mainly through personal networks and charity concerts. ... The relief goods TMC sends to North Korea mainly comprise corn and flour, although they also contain clothing and medical supplies. The organization chooses these food items because they have high calories and are less liable than rice to fall into the hands of elite North Koreans, such as party executives and soldiers. ... Some of the food is also sent directly to North Korea through an ethnic Korean-Chinese who has an access to the North, and the South Korean Red Cross, and Jungto, a Buddhist relief organization for North Korea. … Three million North Korean residents have died of starvation during the last five years, and the number of North Korean defectors exceeds 100,000. As long as this reality prevails, I will go wherever they are," he said. |
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