American Foreign Policy… North Korean Human Rights: Rex Tillerson as Blank Slate 11 Jan 201711 Jan 2017 Will the Trump administration maintain and extend US pressure on North Korea on the human rights front? Will the Executive Branch aim to extend and intensify US criticism of and dialogue…
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…
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…
North Korea Notes on the DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies (Part 2) 26 Sep 201426 Sep 2014 What is the DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies[조선인권연구협회]? According to their extensive 13 September report, the association was founded in August 1992 and is said to include some 150…
North Korea Report of the DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies: Full Text [UPDATED] 17 Sep 201423 Sep 2014 Since the North Korean state seems unable to convey proper URLs for an arguably significant document, I've rooted around the KCNA.kp website, done a bunch of cutting and pasting, and…
Korean War… Leaflets from the Sky 26 Mar 2014 The UN Commission of Inquiry’s up-close-and-personal warning to Kim Jong-un may have been bold, but it was hardly unprecedented. In October 1950, US/UN field commander Douglas MacArthur dumped leaflets all…
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