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분단 60년의 법적 조명 ; 북한인권의 논의동향과 전망 : Review on the 60 Year-Division in Korean Peninsula in the Legal Perspectives ; Recent Discussions on North Korean Human Rights and Their Prospects
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- Issue Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 법학연구소
- Citation
- 법학, Vol.46 No.4, pp. 1-27
- Keywords
- 북한법에 관한 연구 ; socialistic view of human rights ; 미국의 2004 북한인권법 ; 북한출신 난민
- Abstract
- This paper aims to survey the process and the situation of the discussions on
human rights of the North Korean people and seeks to find the possibility of its
improvement. Independent of President Bush's expression axis of evil, North
Korea is a notorious country of the severe violations on human rights. This
totalitarian government abuses the human rights of the its citizens in various
forms.
The U. S. government adopted the North Korea Human Rights Act in 2004,
and the Democracy Advancing Act in 2005. We are observing the effects of
these legislations for the improvement of the current situation. Several hundreds
of human rights activists, politicians and members of Christian groups rallied on
July 19 2005 in Washington, D.C., on North Korean Freedom Day. This kind
of action was shown in December 10, 2005 in Seoul as well.
On the other hand, the Human Rights Committee of the UN has expressed its
resolutions for three times. On those resolutions the UNHRC sent a special
investigator and reporter to North Korea in 2004. A Thailand scholar, Dr. Vitit
Muntarbhorn, issued an official report on the situation of North Korean's human
rights situation. He proposed some immediate measures for the improvement of
the N.K. human rights. Finally, UN general assembly passed a resolution on
N.K. human rights on Nov.17, 2005.
Towards such comments and critics from the outsides, North Korean
government has declared certain severe anti-criticisms. The govermental officials
argue that the concept of human rights is relativistic in accordance with its...
- ISSN
- 1598-222X
- Language
- Korean
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