DPRK Human Rights Briefing at UN Challenges US Unending War Strategy | Netizen Journalism and the New News
All of Korea has experienced the kind of human rights claims of an
occupying power, notes the Report. This was during the period of the
Japanese occupation of Korea (1910-1945). “Each and every law
manufactured by Japan in Korea in the past were…anti–human rights laws
aimed at depriving Korean people of all political freedoms and rights,
and forcing colonial slavery upon them.” (p. 13) The Report explains
that these anti-Korean laws created by the Japanese colonial rule had to
be abolished and a new foundations established legally and politically
in order to provide protection and empowerment for the Korean people,
thus demonstrating that the DPRK is concerned with the question of human
rights. (See p. 14-15)
The
Report proposes that the protection of human rights in the DPRK
requires putting the political development of the DPRK into its
historical context. Throughout the Report historical background is
provided to put current developments into such a perspective. The Report
documents various forms of hostile actions by the US showing the effect
such actions have had on the DPRK development after the end of WWII and
the end of Japanese colonial rule over Korea. One such example that the
Report provides is explaining that “sanctions were imposed on Korea
after Korea was liberated from Japanese colonial rule.”(p. 93) Even
before the Korean War, the US imposed sanctions against the socialist
countries including the DPRK as part of its Cold War politics. (p. 93)
