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3 unusual facts about Park Sang Hak


Park Sang Hak

After graduating college, he was given a job at the government propaganda office in Pyongyang.

Park and his colleagues released balloons containing leaflets from Ganghwa, an island off the west coast of South Korea, in October 2012, shortly after being prevented by authorities from releasing them from Paju, their usual launch site, which North Korea had threatened to fire upon if the balloon release went forward.

Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent

The 2013 recipients of the prize were: Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, North Korean democracy activist Park Sang Hak, and Cuban civil society group the Ladies in White.



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