The United Nation’s Report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea was a landmark document that detailed and codified the horrors the Kim Jong Un regime and its forebears inflict upon its people.
Crimes against humanity, torture, rape, religious and racial persecution – these are but some of the gross human rights abuses that the North Korean people must endure on an everyday basis.
Michael Kirby led the commission and report, and he joins the NK News podcast to discuss his findings five years later, how things have changed (and haven’t), and what mechanisms exist to place human rights at the center of engagement with North Korea.
The Honourable Michael Kirby is a retired judge, formerly a Justice of the High Court of Australia serving from 1996 to 2009. In 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in the DPRK.
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About the podcast: The “North Korea News Podcast” is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by NK News, covering all things DPRK: from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field and insight from our very own journalists.
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