This won't make the Blue House happy:

An American activist group on North Korean human rights plans to build a settlement facility for North Korean defectors to the United States, a revamped version of one in South Korea, a U.S. broadcaster reported Saturday.

"'Hanawon' is not exactly the best resettlement program out there. So...we're going to set up a version of that here in the United States to help facilitate these North Koreans to resettle here in the U.S.," Adrian Hong, head of LiNK (Liberty in North Korea), said in an interview with Washington-based Radio Free Asia.

Hopefully LINK can continue to expand the aiding of North Korean refugees with or without help from Seoul.


Speaking of North Korean defecters, they may being coming to a CD near you sometime soon:

Although their debut album has not been released yet, the Dallae Music Band is already upbeat, hoping to hit it big. The five-woman band, all North Korean defectors, has made a string of media appearances at home and abroad and signed with Seoul's leading entertainment firm.

While anything related to North Korea sounds off-key to the highly commercialized South Korean entertainment world, the young women believe they have their own specialty to show -- North Korea-style music and dance.

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