Human rights in the DPRK

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The United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which was established in March 2013, published a historic report on North Korean human rights to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in February 2014. In this report, the COI confirmed that North Korea’s human rights violations are reaching crimes against humanity and recommended that the United Nation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or set up an ad hoc tribunal to hold North Korea accountable. As a result, the issue of North Korean human rights has officially emerged as an important task for our society to solve together. The first comprehensive and inclusive report stating the actual situation of human rights in North Korea and its improvement measures is authoritatively adopted by the UNHRC and cited by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)’s North Korean Human Rights Resolution, which was adopted for 18 consecutive years by the 77th U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee on November 16, 2022, also had a great influence on human rights organizations both inside and outside Korea. However, even after the release of the COI report, the improvement of human rights in North Korea has been slow and has recently deteriorated under the name of COVID-19 prevention, which got more lagged behind due to frequent launch of nuclear missiles to disable UNSC sanctions by having China with Xi Jinping’s three times consecutive term and Russia with Putin’s dictatorship at the back. Accordingly, this report was prepared with a critical mind that North Korea's human rights issue is the most fatal weakness that North Korea wants to hide and that it should expand interest and participation while presenting the current state of North Korean human rights. It is necessary to come up with innovative measures to reestablish and strengthen the capacity of North Korean human rights improvement activities and expand them as it has been more than ten years since the establishment of the COI. This is considered to be a movement to protect the basics of the human rights development to continuously monitor the North Korean regime’s abnormal and anti-human rights behavior and find ways to improve it, and we think it is an important task for us to maintain in the future. In particular, the Republic of Korea enacted the North Korean Human Rights Act in March 2016 but has not established the North Korean Human Rights Foundation for more than six years, which is a key organization. By making use of the purpose of the COI's establishment, we hope that this report will contribute to better ways to improve North Korean human rights by continuously participating in various human rights mechanisms.

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