The North Korean Conundrum: Balancing Human Rights and Nuclear Security - Softcover

Robert King; Gi-Wook Shin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931368651 ISBN 13: 9781931368650

Publisher: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2022

Synopsis

North Korea is consistently identified as one of the world's worst human rights abusers. However, the issue of human rights in North Korea is a complex one, intertwined with issues like life in the North Korean police state, inter-Korean relations, denuclearization, access to information in the North, and international cooperation, to name a few. There are likewise multiple actors involved, including the two Korean governments, the United States, the United Nations, South Korea NGOs, and global human rights organizations. While North Korea's nuclear weapons and the security threat it poses have occupied the center stage and eclipsed other issues in recent years, human rights remain important to U.S. policy.

The contributors to The North Korean Conundrum explore how dealing with the issue of human rights is shaped and affected by the political issues with which it is so entwined. Sections discuss the role of the United Nations; how North Koreans' limited access to information is part of the problem, and how this is changing; the relationship between human rights and denuclearization; and North Korean human rights in comparative perspective.

About this title

About the Author

Robert R. “Bob” King is an American diplomat. He was nominated in September 2009 by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate in November 2009, to serve as United States special envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, an ambassadorial ranked position.

Gi-Wook Shin is director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University and director of the center's Korea Program.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931368651
• ISBN 13: 9781931368650
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238