Conceptions of democracy and human rights in the democratic people’s Republic of Korea
Korea Institute for National Unification·2008-06-01
- 사회과학
- KDC 340.911
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Since the end of the Cold War, a large number of North Korean people have died of hunger due to the food crisis in the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (the DPRK or North Korea). Stories from North Korean asylum seekers have flown out of the country and this has let the world know about the human rights situation in the DPRK. Amnesty International and other non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) have published reports on the human rights situation in the DPRK, especially those in political prisons. Public awareness movements organized by international human rights NGOs have made the North Korean human rights issue one of the most serious international concerns. The government of the DPRK, on the other hand, describes international society’s demand for more open and transparent policies in the DPRK as a political plot to destroy the socialist regime and adamantly refuses to cooperate with international society in the field of human rights. From a cultural relativistic perspective, the DPRK has a dichotomous approach to democracy and human rights. The DPRK criticizes the origin and nature of Western human rights concepts and strongly denies them since they are purely ‘Western’ and therefore not suitable for North Korea while developing its own idea of ‘our style human rights (urisik inkweon)’, which is a far more inhospitable concept towards other cultures than any other official ideologies of socialist countries. In the mean time, the DPRK has managed to reflect the changed international environment whilst maintaining the socialist character of the society and not damaging the security of the regime by partially adjusting its policies in accordance with international human rights in an attempt to overcome the country’s isolated status in international relations. For better policy outcomes, creating an improvement of the North Korean human rights situation, the causes of human rights violations inside North Korea must be thoroughly analyzed. Bearing in mind that there is no civil society in North Korea and that the complete absence of openness or accessibility to society is apparent, an in-depth analysis on the DPRK’s conceptions about democracy and human rights must be set prior to any decision about appropriate and constructive policies regarding North Korean human rights issues. For this reason, this paper examines the DPRK’s conceptions of democracy and human rights.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Ⅰ. Introduction 1 Ⅱ. The DPRK’s conceptions of democracy 3 1. On the development of democracy●3 2. On socialist democracy●7 3. On liberal democracy●11 Ⅲ. The DPRK’s Conceptions of Human Rights 19 1. On ‘our style human rights’●19 2. On human rights of liberal democracy●26 3. On the interrelatedness of human rights and democracy●29 Ⅳ. The DPRK’s conceptions of the proliferation of democracy and human rights 33 1. On the universality of human rights in international society●33 A. the DPRK’s criticism against the ‘Human Rights Offensive’●33 B. Human rights as a sovereign right or a right of a nation●35 C. Cultural relativism, globalization and ‘our style human rights’●38 D. The fairness of the United Nation●41 2. On the proliferation of democracy●44 A. A strategy for the regime change in the DPRK●44 B. The war on terror and the ‘color revolution’●47 C. Globalization strategy●50 D. The US strategy towards the DPRK●52 Ⅴ. The DPRK’s responses and the ROK’s future policy goals on human rights in the DPRK 55 1. The DPRK’s responses●55 2. Policy goals for human rights in the DPRK●61
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