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April 22, 2021
Joshua Stanton’s HRNK report “Arsenal of Terror” (2015) generated critical information and analysis credited for contributing to the relisting of North Korea as a state-sponsor of terrorism. Over the years, his work has been instrumental in designing the North Korean sanctions regime while paying particular attention to humanitarian exemptions. Joshua Stanton will focus on recent instances of terror by the North Korean regime, including the assassination of the leader’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur international airport, the threat to emigres inside South Korea, as well as the ongoing need for legislation to clarify definitions and process.
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April 08, 2021
The panel addressed the current state of North Korean human rights. The speakers provided an overview of international reactions and initiatives to address North Korean human rights through international fora as well as South Korea's stance on human rights violations in the North. The panel made the case for addressing North Korean human rights as a priority, rather than a "fringe" issue, too often outcompeted by concerns over North Korea's nuclear weapons and missiles.
April 01, 2021
The North Korean regime has been classified in the Open Doors World Watch List as the worst state perpetrator of Christian persecution for the past 20 years through 2021. Only when one contemplates the ‘rivals’ for this designation, such as Somalia, Afghanistan, China, Sudan, Yemen, and Uzbekistan, among other world-class persecutors, does the full impact of Pyongyang’s systemic suppression of its Christian population begin to register. The roots of this toxic strain of religious intolerance can be found in the personality and political philosophy of North Korea’s founding father, Kim Il-sung, the current absolute leader’s grandfather. The grandson has shown himself no less vitriolic in his distrust and hatred of followers of the Nazarene. Despite overwhelming odds that could have caused its extinction, the remnant of the North Korean church has endured through over 70 years of relentless persecution. During those decades, silent external partners of goodwill have desperately
March 25, 2021
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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 of North Korean refugees in the United States, and challenges faced throughout their resettlement process. In addition, the panel discussed the status of former North Koreans in South Korea, including challenges faced during their resettlement and naturalization process and the current South Korean government’s stance on escapee activists and human rights groups. Finally, the panel discussed the impact of the North Korean regime’s COVID “ultra-lockdown” on those who attempt to escape.
March 10, 2021
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 authority on global criminal justice and a most prolific North Korean human rights scholar, will share his thoughts on a roadmap to seeking accountability and justice in the DPRK.
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February 25, 2021
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"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 Workers’ Party and the key elites, the chain of control and command responsible for crimes against humanity and other egregious human rights violations as well as the extent of the oppression brought onto all levels of North Korean society. Together with Collins’ North Korea’s "Organization and Guidance Department: The Control Tower of Human Rights Denial" (2019), "Denied from the Start: Human Rights at the Local Level in Nort
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January 25, 2021
This event will be held under the Chatham House Rule
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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 the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
Director Daiji Yamaguchi will provide a brief overview and update on the issue of abductions of Japanese citizens and nationals of other countries by North Korea. This virtual event, conducted via Zoom, will be ope
December 21, 2020
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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.
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Please email Rosa Park, HRNK Director of Programs and Editor, at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.
December 17, 2020
Featuring
Speakers:
Stephan Haggard
Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor,
School of Global Policy and Strategy,
University of California, San Diego
Marcus Noland
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies,
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Member, Board of Directors, HRNK
Moderator:
Greg Scarlatoiu
Executive Director, HRNK
HRNK is pleased to feature the two authors of our report "Hunger and Human Rights" (2005). Dr. Stephan Haggard and Dr. Marcus Noland will address their work on famine and food insecurity in North Korea. They will also draw comparisons between the human security and human rights situation in North Korea under Kim Jong-il and under the current regime of Kim Jong-un.
The event
December 15, 2020
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Featuring:
Introductory Remarks:
The Honorable Roberta Cohen
Co-chair Emeritus, HRNK
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights,
U.S. Department of State
Speakers:
The Honorable Robert King
Former Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues,
U.S. Department of State
Member, Board of Directors, HRNK
His Excellency Jung Hoon Lee
Dean, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Yonsei University
Former ROK Inaugural Ambassador-at-Large for North Korean Human Rights
Member, Board of Directors, HRNK
Moderator:
Greg Scarlatoiu
Executive Director, HR
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November 19, 2020
HRNK is delighted to host a Zoom event featuring author David Hawk at 10:00 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, November 19. This is going to be the first of our new “Virtual HRNK Author Speaking Series.” For over two decades, David Hawk has investigated and reported on North Korea’s vast system of unlawful imprisonment. His 2003 report “Hidden Gulag” was HRNK’s first, and also the first report ever to combine witness testimony with satellite imagery analysis to scrutinize North Korea’s political prison camps. Ever since, David Hawk has authored four more reports for HRNK, on both the kwan-li-so political prison camps and the kyo-hwa-so reeducation through labor camps. During this program, he will provide an overview of his investigation over the past 20 years as well as his views on the transformation of North Korea’s prison camp system in the 21st century. The event will be moderated by HRNK Exe
September 10, 2020
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) cordially invites you to:
The David Sneddon Case:
Not Forgotten
A Discussion with
James Sneddon
Thursday, September 10, 2020
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
This event will be on the record. Please click here to RSVP: https://forms.gle/2GNXXcQC58J5gqJFA.
Dear Friends of HRNK,
On Thursday, September 10, 2020 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT, HRNK Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu will moderate a Zoom event with James Sneddon, brother of David Sneddon. In August 2004, David Louis Sneddon, at the time a 24-year-old Brigham Young University student, disappeared in China's Yunnan Province after traveling alone through Tiger Leaping Gorge. The evidence surrounding his disappearance followed patterns identified in multiple cases of No
August 28, 2020
Dear Friends of HRNK,
We are delighted to inform you that we have been able to reschedule a very special event, previously postponed due to reasons outside of HRNK's control.
Please join us for a Zoom conversation titled "North Korean Human Rights: An Update in the Age of COVID-19." The event will feature The Honorable Tomás Ojea Quintana, Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The event, moderated by HRNK Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu, will be held from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, August 28, 2020.
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The Honorable Tomás OJEA QUINTANA is a lawyer with more than 14 years of activities in the field of human rights. He has worked at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. He was also the Executive Director
June 19, 2020
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) cordially invites you to:
Remembering Otto:
A Conversation with Cindy Warmbier
Friday, June 19, 2020
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Dear Friend of HRNK,
We wish to invite you to join us for a Zoom conversation with Mrs. Cindy Warmbier, mother of Otto Warmbier. HRNK Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu will moderate a virtual meeting with Mrs. Warmbier, to be held from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Friday, June 19th, the day we commemorate three years since the tragic passing of Otto at the hands of the Kim regime.
Otto Warmbier, a bright, handsome, and talented 22-year-old Ohio native and University of Virginia student, passed away on June 19th, 2017, from injuries suffered while detained on fabricated charges in North Korea.
The Kim regime imprisoned and killed Otto. Ever si
June 17, 2020
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) cordially invites you to:
Six Years after the UN COI Report:
A Discussion with Justice Michael Kirby
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
This event will be on the record.
HRNK Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu will moderate a conversation with The Honorable Michael Kirby, former Chief Commissioner of the UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the DPRK. Justice Kirby and Executive Director Scarlatoiu will address the post-UN COI state of human rights in North Korea and measures needed to bring about improvement.
Please send your RSVP to the attention of Rosa Park, HRNK’s Director of Programs, at [email protected]. Once
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March 19, 2020
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), The Office of the Korea Chair at CSIS, and the George W. Bush Institute cordially invite you to:
Human Rights in North Korea: Regaining Lost Ground
featuring
Amb. Robert King
Board Member, The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Senior Adviser, CSIS Korea Chair
Former Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issue
Dr. Victor Cha
Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, CSIS
Vice Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs and
D.S.-Song - KF Professor of Government, Georgetown University
Fellow in Human Freedom, George W. Bush Institute
Ms. Roberta Cohen
Co-Chair Emeritus,
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Mr. Lindsay Lloyd
Bradford M. Freeman Director of the Human Freedom Initia
December 18, 2019
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) cordially invites you to the rollout of its report:
Digital Trenches:
North Korea's Information Counter-Offensive
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
National Press Club Holeman Lounge
529 14th St NW,
Washington, DC 20045
AGENDA
Introductory Remarks:
The Honorable Robert King
Former U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues
Board Member, HRNK
Presenter:
Martyn Williams
Author, Digital Trenches: North Korea’s Information Counter-Offensive
Discuss
October 18, 2019
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) cordially invites you to:
Lost Generation:
The Health and Human Rights of North Korean Children, 1990–2018
Friday, October 18, 2019
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Cannon 122
27 Independence Ave SE
Washington, DC 20003
AGENDA
Speaker:
W. Courtland Robinson
Author, Lost Generation: The Health and Human Rights of North Korean Children, 1990–2018
Discussants:
Roberta Cohen
Co-Chair Emeritus, HRNK
Marcus Noland
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, Peterson Institute for Internati
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September 18, 2019
North Korea is the world’s most repressive state — and the Organization and Guidance Department (OGD) is the key apparatus in Pyongyang’s administration of tyranny. The OGD may be little known in the United States, but, according to North Korean defector Jang Jin-sung, it is “the only entity that actually matters when it comes to decision-making or policy-making” in the Kim family regime. What exactly is the OGD, how does it operate, and why do North Korea watchers, American policymakers, and human rights activists need to know about it?
Robert M. Collins lifts the veil on this ominous apparatus in the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea’s new report “Organization and Guidance Department: Control Tower of Human Rights Denial.” Please join AEI’s Nicholas Eberstadt for a panel discussion on the report and the latest research about the OGD.
Agenda
1:45 PM
Registration
2:00 PM
Welcome:
In this submission, HRNK focuses its attention on the following issues in the DPRK:
- The status of the system of detention facilities, where a multitude of human rights violations are ongoing.
- The post-COVID human security and human rights status of North Korean women, with particular attention to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).
- The issue of Japanese abductees and South Korean prisoners of war (POWs), abductees, and unjust detainees.
This report provides an abbreviated update to our previous reports on a long-term political prison commonly identified by former prisoners and researchers as Kwan-li-so No. 25 by providing details of activity observed during 2021–2023.
This report was originally published on Tearline at https://www.tearline.mil/public_page/prison-camp-25.
This report explains how the Kim regime organizes and implements its policy of human rights denial using the Propaganda and Agitation Department (PAD) to preserve and strengthen its monolithic system of control. The report also provides detailed background on the history of the PAD, as well as a human terrain map that details present and past PAD leadership.
Oct 17, 2023
HRNK's latest satellite imagery report analyzes a 5.2 km-long switchback road, visible in commercial satellite imagery, that runs from Testing Tunnel No. 1 at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test facility to the perimeter of Kwan-li-so (political prison camp) no. 16.
This report proposes a long-term, multilateral legal strategy, using existing United Nations resolutions and conventions, and U.S. statutes that are either codified or proposed in appended model legislation, to find, freeze, forfeit, and deposit the proceeds of the North Korean government's kleptocracy into international escrow. These funds would be available for limited, case-by-case disbursements to provide food and medical care for poor North Koreans, and--contingent upon Pyongyang's progress
For thirty years, U.S. North Korea policy have sacrificed human rights for the sake of addressing nuclear weapons. Both the North Korean nuclear and missile programs have thrived. Sidelining human rights to appease the North Korean regime is not the answer, but a fundamental flaw in U.S. policy.
(Published by the National Institute for Public Policy)
Sep 26, 2022
North Korea’s forced labor enterprise and its state sponsorship of human trafficking certainly continued until the onset of the COVID pandemic. HRNK has endeavored to determine if North Korean entities responsible for exporting workers to China and Russia continued their activities under COVID as well.
George Hutchinson's The Suryong, the Soldier, and Information in the KPA is the second of three building blocks of a multi-year HRNK project to examine North Korea's information environment. Hutchinson's thoroughly researched and sourced report addresses the circulation of information within the Korean People's Army (KPA). Understanding how KPA soldiers receive their information is needed to prepare information campaigns while taking into account all possible contingenc
This report is part of a comprehensive long-term project undertaken by HRNK to use satellite imagery and former prisoner interviews to shed light on human suffering in North Korea by monitoring activity at political prison facilities throughout the nation. This is the second HRNK satellite imagery report detailing activity observed during 2015 to 2021 at a prison facility commonly identified by former prisoners and researchers as “Kwan-li-so No. 14 Kaech’ŏn” (39.646810, 126.117058) and
This report is part of a comprehensive long-term project undertaken by HRNK to use satellite imagery and former prisoner interviews to shed light on human suffering in North Korea by monitoring activity at civil and political prison facilities throughout the nation. This study details activity observed during 1968–1977 and 2002–2021 at a prison facility commonly identified by former prisoners and researchers as "Kyo-hwa-so No. 3, T'osŏng-ni" and endeavors to e
This report is part of a comprehensive long-term project undertaken by HRNK to use satellite imagery and former detainee interviews to shed light on human suffering in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea) by monitoring activity at political prison facilities throughout the nation. This report provides an abbreviated update to our previous reports on a long-term political prison commonly identified by former prisoners and researchers as Kwan-li-so<
Through satellite imagery analysis and witness testimony, HRNK has identified a previously unknown potential kyo-hwa-so long-term prison-labor facility at Sŏnhwa-dong (선화동) P’ihyŏn-gun, P’yŏngan-bukto, North Korea. While this facility appears to be operational and well maintained, further imagery analysis and witness testimony collection will be necessary in order to irrefutably confirm that Sŏnhwa-dong is a kyo-hwa-so.
Jul 22, 2021
"North Korea’s Long-term Prison-Labor Facility Kyo-hwa-so No. 8, Sŭngho-ri (승호리) - Update" is 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.
Jul 01, 2021
Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Korea: The Role of the United Nations" is HRNK's 50th report in our 20-year history. This is even more meaningful as David Hawk's "Hidden Gulag" (2003) was the first report published by HRNK. In his latest report, Hawk details efforts by many UN member states and by the UN’s committees, projects and procedures to promote and protect human rights in the DPRK. The report highlights North Korea’s shifts in its approach
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 project began with expert testimony Collins submitted as part of a joint investigation and documentation project scrutinizing human rights violations committed at North Korea’s short-term detention facilities, conducted by the Committee for Human Rights