On January 14 Navi Pillay, the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the United Nations, criticized the lack of improvement of human rights abuses in North Korea and called for an international investigation on the country’s abuses that has lasted decades. After the death of Kim Jong Il in December 2011, it was hoped that… Continue Reading »
Recently, the statement made by Park Geun-hye, the presidential candidate of the Saenuri Party, has been causing controversy. She stated that two judgements by the Supreme Court and the people who were in the organization should be respected. She also said that the incident should be assigned to the historical decision. The academic world and the… Continue Reading »
Four South Korean activists are set to be released after more than three months of captivity in a detention facility in Dandong, China. South Korean authorities, as well as much of the international community, have been pressuring the Chinese government for their release, calling their detainment a human rights violation. Kim Young-Hwan, a prominent South Korean… Continue Reading »
On June 29th, the North Korean government held a press conference for a defector who returned to Pyongyang this May. Pak Jong-Suk, 66 years old, condemned life in the South, claiming she was tricked into leaving her home by South Korean agents. The press conference was held in the People’s public palace of culture in Pyongyang,… Continue Reading »
North Korean defectors testified about severe tortures in North Korean concentration camps. Inmates suffer from various corporal punishments depicted in the picture above. Added to these, pregnant women are forced to abort. Drugs were injected into their bellies-babies survived were put to death. Starvation is also a common thing. Their sandyish meal consists of mainly… Continue Reading »
According to the report by SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System) it was reported that some of the North Korean defectors being held by the Chinese authorities in China were forcibly returned to North Korea. As a response, the South Korean government is going to raise the issue to the United Nations Human Rights Committee starting on… Continue Reading »
Last week, about 30 refugees from North Korea were caught by the Chinese police. The defectors, who fear the torture and public execution when they were sent back by the Chinese government, asked National Human Rights Commission of ROK for help. As a response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the Chinese government to follow… Continue Reading »
Hundreds gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea in protest of the repatriation threat of 30 some North Korea defectors being detained in China. Many North Korean defectors en route through China to most times countries in Southeast Asia before defecting to South Korea. These recent mass captures of defectors… Continue Reading »
News Briefs April 16~18, 2011 16 April 2011 National Police Agency to Root out Gender and Class Discrimination… Continue Reading »
Moonhee Kim The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) online propaganda toward South Korea, uriminzokkiri (Only between Korean Peoples), condemned the vote for the installation of the Special Committee on North Korean Human Rights by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK). The NHRCK held their annual first plenary meeting on Jan. 10th and… Continue Reading »