November 2006
US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea 2006 Report
http://www.hrnk.org/refugeesReport06.pdf
16 January 2007
South Korean fisherman returns home 30 years
after being abducted and taken to
North Korea. South Korea
believes 485 of its citizens have been kidnapped by the North
since the end of the Korean War.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6266915.stm
10 January 2007
With UN sanctions in place and the possibility of
further famine, Kim Jong Il’s regime has turned to exporting
labour abroad to earn wages which are then taken by the
government, according to experts.
Jay
Lefkowitz, U.S. special envoy for human rights in North Korea,
explored the issue in an article published in The Wall Street
Journal on 10 January.
http://media-newswire.com/release_1041408.html
…the story as reported by Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2007/01/17/korea_migrants/
18 January 2007
North Korean workers forced to work in appalling
conditions to mine precious metals which are then sold abroad to
prop up the regime.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/IA18Dg01.html
28 April 2007
With the re-establishment of diplomatic ties, Myanmar and North
Korea, two of Asia's
most reclusive and abusive military-run regimes, have formed
what some regional observers fear has already become a
destabilizing strategic alliance.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/ID28Ae01.html
2 June 2007
South Korea’s
“Sunshine Policy”, referred to loosely in this article as
leading to the establishment of a “peace regime”, is proving
harder to pursue than South Korean policy makers perhaps
imagined. While attempting to satisfy US/Chinese demands for
nuclear disarmament, carefully built trust is being undermined
as North Korea refuses to budge. And
all the while, hungry North Koreans continue to wait for the
rice shipments at the heart of the stalemate.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/IF02Dg01.html
13
June 2007
Rejected and marginalized by a regime that has only recently
begun to acknowledge their existence, disabled North Koreans
live under effective house arrest and are routinely expelled
from the capital, Pyongyang, defectors and
aid groups say.
http://www.rfa.org/english/korean/2007/06/13/nkorea_disabled/
15 June 2007
Reports that Kim Jong Il has been taken ill are forcing
speculation as to the consequences of a North Korea without him.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/IF15Dg01.html
19
June 2007
This month Christian Solidarity Worldwide has published an
in-depth new report on the human rights situation in North Korea. As part of the report’s
launch, Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, met with two
North Korean defectors. Download the full report at:
http://www.csw.org.uk/Countries/NorthKorea/Resources/North_Korea-A_Case_to_Answer-A_Call_to_Act.pdf
