Delegation of North Korean Defectors to Launch North Korean Freedom Week at National Press Club

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Apr 23, 2015, 11:21 ET

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A delegation of North Korean defectors will launch activities for the 12^th Annual North Korea Freedom Week with a Newsmakers news conference at the National Press Club. Before testifying on Capitol Hill, meeting with State Department officials and visiting the U.N., the group of defectors – which includes former military and eyewitnesses to slave labor operations, political prison camps and similar activities – will share new information, release photographs and discuss their ideas for bringing about change in North Korea.

This Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for Monday, April 27 at 9 a.m. in the club's Murrow Room, on the 13^th floor of the National Press Building at 529 14^th St. NW, Washington DC, 20045.

Like all Newsmakers events, this news conference is open to credentialed press and NPC members, free of charge. No advance registration is required.

Contacts:

National Press Club: Peter Hickman
301/367-7711 ©, 301/530-1210 (t), 202/662-7540 (NPC), [email protected]

Defectors: SUZANNE SCHOLTE (Defense Forum Foundation)
703/534-4313, [email protected]

Herb Perone, NPC Newsmakers Chair, 301-512-7636, [email protected]

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SOURCE National Press Club