Mr. Sang-Hak Park is Head of Fighters for a Free North Korea. Mr. Park is from Hyesan, Yanggang Province, North Korea and was born to parents who had been repatriated from abroad to North Korea. He graduated from Kim Chaek University of Technology. Shocked by the 1997 defection of former Workers’ Party Secretary Hwang Jang-yop, he fled North Korea with his father in 1999 and arrived in South Korea in August 2000. After arriving, he worked at Seoul National University’s Mobile Research Institute and at a media outlet focused on Korean unification. He later experienced the tragedy of family members who remained in North Korea being taken away by the security authorities, tortured, and either killed or disappeared. This became a turning point in his human rights activism. In 2003, he took part in establishing the headquarters for the Movement to Dismantle North Korean Political Prison Camps and later served as Secretary General of the North Korea Democratization Movement. Since 2004, he has continued his balloon leaflet campaigns into North Korea and has been one of the key organizational leaders involved in North Korea Freedom Week since its inception.