North Korea’s human rights abuses: The crimes of a belligerent state
Monday, March 27, 2017 | 10:00 AM–3:40 PM
Lunch will be served.
AEI, Auditorium | 1789 Massachusetts Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20036
For US policy, defending human rights in North Korea is not only a moral imperative but also an essential element to reducing the regime’s threats to the rest of the world.
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Pyongyang is the world’s worst human rights violator, and yet, the Kim regime’s behavior at home cannot be dismissed as an isolated threat far from America’s shores, as North Korea’s latest atrocities abroad — overseas assassinations, rocket launches, and nuclear threats — demonstrate. For US policy, defending human rights in North Korea is not only a moral imperative but also an essential element to reducing the danger the regime poses to the world.
Please join AEI, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and the Yonsei Center for Human Liberty on March 27 — the third anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s endorsement of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights report on North Korea — for an expert update on the human rights situation in North Korea and a discussion of how Washington and its allies in the region can seek to improve it.
PARTICIPANTS
Virginia Bennett, US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI
Joanna Hosaniak, Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights
H. E. Ahn Ho-Young, Republic of Korea ambassador to the United States
Sung Han Kim, former Republic of Korea vice minister of foreign affairs
Taehyo Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Robert King, former US special envoy on North Korean human rights
Michael Kirby, Former Chief, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea
Jung-Hoon Lee, Republic of Korea ambassador for North Korean human rights
David Maxwell, Georgetown University; Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
William Newcomb, 38 North
Myung-hyun Ko, Asan Institute of Policy Studies
Greg Scarlatoiu, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Joshua Stanton, One Free Korea
REGISTER
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To watch live online, click here on March 27 at 10:00 AM ET. Registration is not required.
CONTACTS
For more information, please contact Cecilia Joy Perez at [email protected], 202.862.7190.
For media inquiries or to register a camera crew, please contact [email protected], 202.862.5829.
