1. Human Rights and North Korea

2. Top 10 Things to Know about Human Rights and North Korea

3. 10) I have no idea what I am talking about!

4. 10) I have no idea what I am talking about!

5. 10) I have no idea what I am talking about!
“Anyone who claims to be an expert on North Korea is either a liar or a fool.” Walter Mondale

6. 9) The Kim family isn’t crazy. Sort of.

7. 9) The Kim family isn’t crazy. Sort of.

8. 9) The Kim family isn’t crazy. Sort of.

9. 9) The Kim family isn’t crazy. Sort of.

10. 8) Three historical moments and two important ideologies

11. 8) Three historical moments and two important ideologies
1956

12. 8) Three historical moments and two important ideologies
1956
1967

13. 8) Three historical moments and two important ideologies
1956
1967
Juche

14. 8) Three historical moments and two important ideologies
1956
1967
Juche
Suryong

15. 8) Three historical moments and two important ideologies
1956
1967
1994
Juche
Suryong

16. 8) Three historical moments and two important ideologies
1956
1967
1994
Juche
Suryong
Songon

17. 7) Two more long-term factors

18. 7) Two more long-term factors
Confucianism

19. 7) Two more long-term factors
Confucianism
Racism

20. 6) This is my hockey team

21. 5) Human rights and the Kim family cult of personality

22. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.

23. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
“Extermination, murder, human experimentation, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, and other sexual violence.” United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea report, 2014

24. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
“Crimes against humanity.” United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea report, 2014

25. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
“The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.” United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea report, 2014

26. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
I) Freedom of Information and Thought

27. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
I) Freedom of Information and Thought
“The State operates an all- encompassing indoctrination machine that takes root from childhood to propagate an official personality cult and to manufacture absolute obedience to the Supreme Leader (Suryong), effectively to the exclusion of any thought independent of official ideology and State propaganda.”

28. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
II) Songbun system

29. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
II) Songbun system
“Discrimination is rooted in the songbun system, which classifies people on the basis of State-assigned social class and birth, and also includes consideration of political opinions and religion.”

30. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
III) Freedom of Movement

31. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
III) Freedom of Movement
“Virtually all social activities undertaken by citizens of all ages are controlled by the Workers’ Party of Korea. Through the associations that are run and overseen by the Party, and to which citizens are obliged to be members, the State is able to monitor its citizens and to dictate their daily activities.”

32. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
IV) Political Prison Camps (Kwanliso)

33. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
IV) Political Prison Camps (Kwanliso)
“ In the political prison camps of the DPRK, the inmate population has been gradually eliminated through deliberate starvation, forced labour, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide... The unspeakable atrocities that are being committed against inmates of the kwanliso political prison camps resemble the horrors of camps that totalitarian States established during the twentieth century.”

34. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
V) Forced labor, detention, and re- education camps (kyohwaso)

35. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
V) Forced Labor, detention, and re- education camps (kyohwaso)
“Prisoners in the ordinary prison system are systematically subjected to deliberate starvation and illegal forced labour. Torture, rape and other arbitrary cruelties at the hands of guards and fellow prisoners are widespread and committed with impunity.”

36. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
VI) Abductions and enforced disappearances from other countries

37. 4) Life inside North Korea is as bad as you think. Probably worse.
VI) Abductions and enforced disappearances from other countries
“The commission finds that almost all of the foregoing victims remain disappeared. Human rights violations continue against them and their families. The shock and pain caused by such actions is indescribable.”

38. 3) The Refugee Crisis

39. 2) What should we do about it?

40. 1) Let’s watch a movie