North Korea

Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights

$210,000
To bring international attention to the human rights situation in North Korea. The Citizens’ Alliance will promote awareness among South Koreans about North Korea and test methods of assisting North Koreans living in South Korea to adjust to citizenship in a democratic society.

Daily NK

$130,000*
To disseminate accurate and timely information about North Korea. The Daily NK will produce an online newspaper serving audiences in South Korea and in the international community. The newspaper will include news and information about North Korean human rights issues as well as developments in North Korean politics and economics.

Database Center for North Korean Human Rights

$130,000*
To disseminate accurate and timely information about North Korea. The Daily NK will produce an online newspaper serving audiences in South Korea and in the international community. The newspaper will include news and information about North Korean human rights issues as well as developments in North Korean politics and economics.

Free North Korea Radio Station (Free NK)

$216,200
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Free NK will produce and broadcast a daily radio program to increase the news, information, and independent commentary available to North Korean audiences.

InterMedia Survey Institute

$37,620
To promote the free flow of information. InterMedia will conduct survey research to document listener response to international broadcasting, and provide nongovernmental broadcasters with independent, reliable data about audience behaviors and preferences as an aid to making future programming and formatting decisions.

Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy (NKnet)

$35,000 *
To provide a forum in Seoul for discussion of the future of North Korea. NKnet will hold strategy sessions to explore effective means of promoting economic and political liberalization in North Korea.

Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy (NKnet) – Radio Free Chosun

$233,588
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. NKnet will broadcast its daily Radio Free Chosun program, providing news and features on the Korean peninsula, to the North Korean public.

NK Communications

$100,000
To support the free flow of information into North Korea. NK Communications will produce the North Korea Reform Radio program, providing daily broadcasting of news, information, and commentary, to encourage the development of independent North Korean public opinion inside the country.

NK Communications

$24,917*
To support the free flow of information into North Korea. NK Communications will produce the North Korea Reform Radio program, providing daily broadcasting of news, information, and commentary, to encourage the development of independent North Korean public opinion inside the country.

North Korea Strategy Center (NKSC)

$19,318 *
To raise awareness of the process of North Korean defectors’ adjustment to a democratic society and become a center through which challenges faced by defectors can be raised. The NKSC will produce a report highlighting lessons learned about effective government policies and civil society programs that can assist North Koreans in successfully adjusting to a democratic society.

Open North Korea

$216,000
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Open North Korea will maintain a radio platform that enables organizations and groups outside of North Korea to broadcast information and feature programs to North Korean audiences.