Justice for Kim Jong-un Providence Journal, Editorials February 24, 2014 That North Korea is a brutal society that deprives its people of basic human rights on a mass scale is no secret to anyone. Nobody is fooled by its leader’s closeness to Dennis Rodman, the former basketball player, or by the pretty parades of its high-stepping troops. The U.N. Human Rights Council sent to Korean leader Kim Jong-un a letter, dated Jan. 20, informing him that

   United Nations Nations Unies 유엔 조선민주주의인민공화국 인권조사위원회 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA North Korea: UN Commission documents wide-ranging and ongoing crimes against humanity, urges referral to ICC GENEVA (17 February 2014) – A wide array of crimes against humanity, arising from “policies established at the highest level of State,” have been committed

UN letter to Kim Jong Un warns on accountability Anja Niedringhaus, Associated Press 17 February 2014 - Retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, center, chairperson of the commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, takes off his glasses after delivering the commission’s report during a press conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. A U.N. panel has warned North Korean

Crimes against humanity in North Korea, UN panel finds The Washington Post, By Associated Press 14 February 2014 WASHINGTON — A U.N. panel has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and will call for an international criminal investigation, The Associated Press has learned. The report, to be released Monday, is the most authoritative account yet of rights violations by North Korean authorities, and it is bound to

The UN report on North Korea: Four things to know The Washington Post, Chico Harlan 17 February 2014 The United Nations released an authoritative report on North Korea on Monday describing rights violations “without any parallel in the contemporary world.” And North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got an advance copy. Michael Kirby, head of a three-member U.N. panel that spent a year investigating the abuses, said he also sent Kim a letter putting

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was established under a Korean Stalinist communist, Kim Il-Sung, in August, 1948. North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950. By October 1950, UN forces had driven the North Korean army back to the border with China. In November 1950, the Chinese army invaded Korea and drove UN forces back to the 38th Parallel. An Armistice Agreement was reached in 1953, effectively ending the Korean War. Kim Il

North Korea has been a leader in human rights violations since the Korean War when they kidnapped and forced thousands of South Koreans to fight on the side of the North.  The civil war, each side backed by a corresponding political superpower, lead to the split of the peninsula along the 38th parallel. Since, North Korea has used fear, torture and propaganda to ensure the loyalty of its citizens to the regime and the Kim family. Atrocities committed

North Korea ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ North Korea outlines exacting terms for talks with U.S., South Korea By Jethro Mullen 18 April 2013 (CNN) -- North Korea on Thursday set out demanding conditions for any talks with Washington and Seoul, calling for the withdrawal of U.N. sanctions against it and a permanent end to joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.

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