Perilous Passages: Human Trafficking and the “Underground Railroad”
by Brian Marten NEW YORK, NY – Involuntary and voluntary trafficking in North Korea continues across the 880 miles of border with China, says Human Rights Activist Steven Kim and author Melanie...
View ArticleHuman Rights Abuses “Don’t Exist” In North Korea, KCNA Says
WASHINGTON DC – State media outlet KCNA claimed yesterday that “there does not exist human rights abuses and they can not exist” in North Korea. Angry over a UN inquiry announced last week to...
View ArticleWhy North Koreans Should Be Allowed Asylum Beyond South Korea – A Response
By Jack Kim The following is a response to “Why North Koreans Should Be Allowed Asylum Beyond South Korea“, an article by Markus Bell that appeared on these pages last week. Let me preface this...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Famine: A UN Representative Looks Back
A United Nations representative to the DPRK during the nation’s horrific mid-1990s famine believes that the arrival of aid from foreign donors saved many lives, but that distrust prevented sustainable...
View ArticleSouth Korea Supports UN N. Korea Human Rights Investigation
South Korea announced its official support for an in-depth investigation by the United Nations into human rights violations in North Korea on Wednesday. The resolution only needs majority support from...
View ArticleWhy North Koreans Should Be Allowed Asylum Beyond South Korea
North Korean re-migrants are in a precarious position, sometimes offered asylum, other times deported as illegal immigrants. Until now, it has been taken for granted that because a majority of these...
View ArticleSouth Korea Withdraws Nationals From Kaesong Industrial Complex
WASHINGTON DC – South Korea has ordered the departure of all remaining nationals from the jointly run Kaesong Industrial Complex after North Korea failed to respond to demands for talks on the issue. A...
View ArticleWhy S.Koreans Aren’t Angry About N. Korean Human Rights Abuses
The road to the South Korean launch of Shin Dong-Hyuk’s memoir of his life inside a North Korean concentration camp has been a long one. His account is the harrowing story of a boy born in the...
View ArticleRepatriated defectors follow high-level state visit from Laos
LONDON – Nine North Korean refugees have been returned to North Korean authorities in China three days after a high profile Laos delegation visited Pyongyang. The nine refugees, aged between 15 and 23,...
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‘Evil Leaders’ do not explain North Korea’s human rights crisis
North Korea refuses to cooperate at any level on the issue of human rights, according to an announcement from the United Nations in early July. But a recently established investigation commission, led...
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