Monthly Archives: July 2017
Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea
New Report on Rights Abuses
Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), a Seoul-based non-governmental organization, published on July 19 a report entitled “Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea.”
Providing information on the killing sites, mass graves, and documentary evidence, the report adds to the report more specific information to the detailed findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in DPRK” by UN Human Rights Council.
LFNKR applauds the great efforts of TJWG to prepare this unique report. It has already generated new momentum for thoroughly investigating the crimes against humanity in North Korea.
Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea
Missiles fly; Citizens starve
Since January 2017, North Korea has already launched 11 missiles this year. Most of the news about North Korea these days focuses almost exclusively on those missiles. World media seem to forget about the majority of the people in North Korea, those who still suffer dire food shortages.
By mid-July 2017, North Korea had begun connecting high voltage power lines to the barbed wire fencing that runs along the Tumen and Yalu River. This is a move to further tighten their crackdown on people trying to escape into China.
For decades now, the entire nation of North Korea has been a huge prison.
Below are three news articles reminding us that in North Korea, people are suffering. Even the soldiers face long-term malnutrition and many people are shipped abroad to work as slaves, where they earn foreign currency, which is sent back to the regime.
Electrified fence – Asia Press
North Koreans working as slaves – Radio Free Asia
Soldiers suffering malnutrition – Asia Press