Please RSVP here.  HRNK will be featuring the latest report under a long-term project employing satellite imagery analysis and former political prisoner testimony to shed light on human suffering in North Korea's prison camps. The event will be open to the press and on-the-record. The Zoom credentials will be sent to you shortly before the program. […]

This event will be held under the Chatham House Rule RSVP Featuring: Daiji Yamaguchi Director of Policy, Headquarters for the Abductions Issue, Government of Japan Moderator: Greg Scarlatoiu Executive Director, HRNK When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor […]

Please click here to RSVP.  "South Africa’s Apartheid and North Korea’s Songbun: Parallels in Crimes against Humanity" by Robert Collins underlines similarities between two systematically, deliberately, and thoroughly discriminatory repressive systems. This latest report by Robert Collins adds to his many contributions to understanding North Korea’s levers of power, the dominant role of the Korean […]

Ambassador Morse Tan will address accountability for the crimes against humanity and other egregious human rights violations committed by the North Korean regime. The North Korean human rights issue was sidelined during summit diplomacy with the DPRK. However, more than seven years after the UN COI report, accountability is not forgotten. Ambassador Tan, a top […]

This event was held on the record. The three presenters presented an overview of the North Korean refugee crisis including: refoulement to North Korea, China’s role, the applicability of the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and the international response. The speakers addressed the U.S. North Korean Human Rights Act, the status […]