China… Samantha Power at the Security Council, and North Korea’s ‘Sham Report’ on Human Rights (Part 3 of 3) 29 Dec 201429 Dec 2014 While "The Interview" sideshow has in some ways become the main media event of the past weeks, the DPRK remains very much center stage at the United Nations. North Korean…
Beijing… Distant Proximity: China and the North Korean Human Rights Catastrophe 20 Nov 201420 Nov 2014 Beijing is a long way from North Korea. Border crossing points between China and the DPRK remain open, but the potentially fastest and 'game-changing' of these is blocked at present,…
North Korea Notes on the DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies (Part 3) 30 Sep 2014 How does the DPRK position itself with respect to international standards and the discourse on universal human rights? The report does a fairly slipshod job of establishing that North Korea’s…