The National Human Rights Commission of South Korea (NHRC) announced on the 25th that if things go quickly, it plans to commence an investigation into the actual human rights situation inside North Korea beginning next month.<\/p>\n
An affiliate of NHRC revealed in a telecommunication with Daily NK that \u201cup till now, the NHRC has investigated, in cooperation with North Korean defectors, the resettlement conditions of defectors in South Korea and, indirectly, the human rights situation inside North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NHRC stated that it has investigated the North Korean human rights situation; however, it stopped at an indirect inquiry conducted while looking into the resettlement situation of North Korean defectors in South Korea. For this reason, the anticipated commencement of the investigation into the human rights situation inside North Korea is classified as the first conducted by the Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n
The NHRC additionally announced, \u201cThis year, through one of our central enterprises, the \u2018Implementation of Human Rights Protection for North Korean Residents and Defectors\u2019, we will come to know the current circumstances surrounding the whole of human rights inside North Korea,\u201d and, \u201c(as reported by the press) the torture of North Korean defectors will not be investigated separately.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NHRC maintained that \u201cthere is no plan to engage examiners at the North Korea-China border to assist in the investigation into the actual condition of human rights in North Korea,\u201d and stated, \u201cFundamentally, we will look into the human rights situation inside North Korea by focusing on defectors who have resettled and are living in South Korea; through this process, will the torture of North Korean defectors not also be investigated?\u201d By the NHRC\u2019s statement, any reports of an \u201cexamination team dispatched to the North Korea – China border area\u201d for the investigation into the torture of North Korean defectors were revealed to be false. <\/p>\n
The NHRC is expecting the investigation to commence in the next month if possible, and will assign the task to an external research organization. the Commission estimates a 5 to 6 week turnaround on the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Human Rights Commission of South Korea (NHRC) announced on the 25th that if things go quickly, it plans to commence an investigation into the actual human rights situation inside North Korea beginning next month. An affiliate of NHRC revealed in a telecommunication with Daily NK that \u201cup till now, the NHRC has investigated, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":6388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n