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As the Commission of Inquiry swings into gear, those with an interest in human rights in North Korea are asking the difficult question of how to guarantee it has some meaningful effect. Are there issues on which the outside world could actually engage the regime? The prison camp system is emerging as one focal point. [...]
SinoNK is one of a handful of sites—like Curtis Melvin’s North Korea Economy Watch and Michael Madden’s North Korea Leadership Watch—that we find ourselves visiting repeatedly. A central insight of SinoNK is that China is not Beijing and that the border provinces have a distinctive and underappreciated role in China-DPRK relations. It is not only [...]
It’s no fun being a press secretary. Just ask White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell. You have to put up with incessant questioning about Dennis Rodman. Then there’s that bit about Pirate Bay, a torrent based file sharing website that often runs afoul of international copyright laws. You’ve probably never heard [...]
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea along with Digital Globe, a commercial organization that provides high resolution imagery and geospatial analysis products, have collaborated to produce a new report on North Korea’s political prison camp number 25. Using high resolution satellite imagery from Digital Globe, HRNK and Digital Globe analysts were able to [...]
The UN Security Council is not going to be the only source of North Korean displeasure in coming weeks and months. We have also seen a number of important new developments at the UN with respect to North Korean human rights. In October, we summarized a hard-hitting Special Rapporteurs report and in December we noted [...]
North Korean human rights issues are gaining momentum at the UN, and prison camps appear to be a focal point for the new, more candid discussion. In October, we summarized the Special Rapporteurs report and in December we noted the steady decline in the number of countries willing to back North Korea on the issue. [...]
The first research publication of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea was David Hawk’s expose on the prison system (Hidden Gulag, 2003); it has recently been updated. Based on a combination of refugee testimony and satellite photos, that work is now being institutionalized into a kind of monitoring system. The Committee has partnered [...]
We pass along details about the following event as a courtesy to our friends at The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, The Simon Wiesenthal Center & Liberty in North Korea (LiNK). — The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), The Simon Wiesenthal Center & Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) present North Korea’s Political [...]
Melanie Kirkpatrick, who had a long and successful career at the Wall Street Journal, including as Deputy Editor of its editorial page, has written a lively and engaging book called Escape from North Korea: Asia’s Underground Railroad. The link to the American underground railroad is explicit; for Kirkpatrick, this is a story of an exodus [...]
When it appeared nearly ten years ago, The Hidden Gulag, a report written by David Hawk for the Committee on Human Rights in North Korea represented a breakthrough in our understanding of the North Korean system of repression. Interviewing refugees who had either worked in or had been incarcerated in the North Korean penal system, [...]
