On Tuesday, May 23, NKinUSA Vice President Grace Jo spoke at the ninth annual Oslo Freedom Forum. Invited as part of a group of renowned human rights activists from around the globe to gather in Oslo to share their stories, Grace talked about her family’s experience surviving the Great Famine of the 1990s, fleeing North […]
President Jinhye Jo and Vice President Grace Jo recently appeared on a number of interview programs on TV, online, and on radio. On June 7 and again on June 9, WHUT-TV (PBS) broadcast the Mimi Geerges Show’s interview with Jinhye and Grace. On June 6, The Young Turks posted an interview with Grace from […]
“I’m good at escaping,” says Grace Jo, a slender 25-year-old who managed to flee North Korea and its authoritarian regime not just once but three times, though most of her family was not so lucky. Even as the reclusive Asian nation steps up its military provocations, millions of its people still struggle to get enough […]
On March 17, NKinUSA vice president Grace Jo participated in an event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, co-sponsored by Jubilee Campaign. The event was titled North Korean Women: Destitution and Human Trafficking in China. The event featured three North Korean women defectors: Grace Jo, Lim Hye-jin, and Lee So-yeon. Each woman shared […]
Grace Jo, now an American citizen, shares her story of defection from North Korea, where she was born, with St. Louis on the Air producer Kelly Moffitt. KELLY MOFFITT | ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO As a little girl in North Korea, Grace Jo lived through one of the worst famines in North Korean history. While […]