[imText1]A 3rd annual Mock National Assembly for South Korean students was held on the 25th in the National Assembly Memorial Hall, Seoul by the Youth and Students Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea, sponsored by the Human Rights Forum of the National Assembly.
In the event, students performed a mock assembly in which both a ruling party, named the Generalized Party, and the opposition party, the Difference Party, tried to ratify the North Korean Human Rights Bill and debated ways to improve the human rights situation.
The topics of the student’s mock assembly included the effectiveness of the North Korean human rights bill; ways to support defectors in South Korea and third party countries; the role of the Korean government’s human rights ambassador; humanitarian aid; ways to support NGOs and the like.
After watching the mock assembly, Kim Hyung Ju, a participating student from Yonsei University, commented, “I can’t understand how ruling party members are indifferent to the Bill, and why the Legislation and Judiciary Committee continues to delay its passage.”
The President of the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet), Han Ki Hong, criticized general public opinion on the North Korean human rights issues in his commemorative speech at the event, saying, “Because the people don’t have any interest in the North Korean human rights bill, politicians are also disinterested.”
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