Kim Jong Un Directs North Korea's Human Rights Response..."Recognized as a challenge to the system"

[Anchor]
Regarding the international community's discussion on North Korea's human rights, the full text sent by the North's Foreign Ministry to overseas missions for years was recently released.

It turns out that Chairman Kim Jong-un has taken countermeasures one by one, because experts perceive it as a challenge to the system.

I'm reporter Lee Jong Won.

[Reporter]
This is a total of 12 North Korean diplomatic texts recently released by former North Korean diplomat Ri Il-kyu, who defected to Cuba in December last year.

In February 2016, a telegram sent by North Korea's Foreign Ministry to its diplomatic missions abroad contained instructions to respond with a tactic to ignore the UN's human rights resolution and not participate if it is voted on at the General Assembly.

Another document also says to conduct public opinion operations to bury North Korean defectors who expose the human rights situation in North Korea socially and politically.

[Ri Il-gyu / Former North Korean Embassy in Cuba (Global Unification Dialogue on the 12th): We are groaning in a society where human dignity is not respected, such as the basic right to live, the right to freedom of expression, and the right to move]

North Korea's response to the international community's discussion on North Korea's human rights is explicitly revealed, especially the instructions of the supreme leader.

While ignoring the international community's calls for human rights improvement, Kim Jong-un is giving instructions one by one, reacting sensitively to public criticism.

North Korea also expressed its intention to reject all recommendations made by the three countries during the UN's recent "universal human rights regular review."

South Korea demanded the resolution of the problem of six South Korean detainees, humanitarian treatment of North Korean defectors forced to defect to the North, and the abolition of the so-called "three major evil laws," but it was not accepted.

[Park Won-gon / Professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University] From Kim Jong-un's point of view, it was a huge disgrace to the international community, and it was a serious problem that could be seen as a challenge to his system and a challenge to the individual.]

Former disaster Lee Il-kyu testified that the recent dispatch of troops to Russia raised the possibility of North Koreans' agitation, but that it is the reality of North Korean human rights that they do not know where they are at all if they send their children to the military.

The Ministry of Unification said it will make every effort to find responsibility for human rights violations in North Korea in solidarity with civil society, academia, and the international community based on documents provided by the former disaster.

I'm YTN's Lee Jong Won.

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: Kwon Seok-jae