He UN high commissioner For the Human Rights, Volker Türkhe urged the United Nations Member States to bring the serious human rights violations in North Korea, as well as to make use of the universal jurisdiction to defend the victims, reports EFE. “The prolonged isolation in North Korea feeds human rights violations and weakens regional and international peace and security,” he said in the UN Human Rights Council, in which he presented a report on the situation of fundamental freedoms in that country since 2014. In Seoul In South Korea.
Death penalty for distributing music
North Korea more and more deepens his fall to the abyss of the authoritarian nightmare by the hand of the Dictator Kim Jong-un. UN reports corroborate that the country engaged in breaking cultural bridges with the rest of the world has accentuated in recent years the repression of human rights in the country. The UN identified at least three laws that in Western eyes cause stupor and that for North Koreans draw an existence full of personal limitations and hard sanctions. Specifically, North Korea penalizes access to unauthorized foreign information and prohibits consumption or dissemination of information (Through, for example, publications, music or films) of “hostile” nations. According to the testimonies consulted by the UN, the most isolated state on the planet has reached Apply the death penalty for sharing films, music or foreign television series. The hardening of living conditions and restriction of freedoms in North Korea occurs in full approach to Russia and China.
Controlled Society
The report, officially published on September 12, draws a “lost decade”, according to Türk, in which North Korean citizens followed “silenced, monitored, exploited and controlled in all aspects of their life.” Likewise, he denounces that public executions continue, the forced labor for almost the entire population in the form of “shock brigades”, and the existence of at least four prisons for political prisoners.
Malnutrition
Türk added this Monday before the Council that there are no progress in the search for information about Japanese, South Korean citizens and other countries that, some for decades, were abducted abroad by North Korean agents. The report emphasizes that all abuses occur in the context of a country in serious crisis, where it is estimated that 40% of the population is malnourished.
Social system
Türk also denounced that in the country suffers high levels of discrimination due to the social system ‘Songbun’, which classifies the population according to family origin, political loyalty and personal behavior.
300 refugee testimony
The investigation submitted to the Council, prepared among other sources with the testimony of more than 300 North Koreans escaped in the country, concludes that no other population in today’s world is subject to a control as high as the one suffered by the citizens of the Asian country. The UN Report for Human Rights asks the North Korean authorities to abolish the death penalty, abandon practices such as torture and mistreatment of detainees and resume meetings between relatives divided by the conflict between the two Koreas, after seven years without being held.
