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Human Rights and Denuclearisation in North Korea: Two Sides of the Same Coin


A propaganda poster on the streets of Kaesong, North Korea. A 2014 UN report outlines indoctrination carried out in schools and forced participation in propaganda events as some of the main human rights abuse charges levelled against the North Korean regi


If long-term peace is to be achieved and denuclearisation completed, addressing North Korea’s human rights situation must become part of the process. Without this, it will be impossible to remove all sources of perceived hostility and North Korea’s nuclear weapons.

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Cristina Varriale

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