The lives of North Koreans are embedded with the fascist policies of their leader Kim Jong-un. There is absolutely no freedom within North Korea and being a citizen of his regime. The lives of these people are being harmed every single day due to the policies of the regime. No internet, prison camps, public executions, and food shortages are just to name a few. The country of North Korea has been faced with scrutiny and allegations regarding the mistreatment of their own citizens. According to Kim Jong-un’s biography on biography.com , after becoming the leader in 2011 Kim took after his father Kim Jong-il. Kim was born in North Korea and the son of Ko Young-hee, an opera singer, and Kim Jong-il, who was the leader of the country for over
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Through the reports, North Korean officials have killed, tortured, raped, and starved the North Korean people with impunity, all under the policies that have been appointed at the highest level. The commission urged the UN Security Council to transfer the situation in North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold those responsible. In December of 2015, the second year in a row, the Security Council held a session to discuss North Korea’s terrible human rights situation as a threat the international peace and security. Later on, the UNHRC heard Marzuki Darusman, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, who expressed deep regret that despite the international attention, accountability will remain elusive, and the North Korean human rights situation will not improve over time. Marzuki called on UNHRC members to look into the actions committed by North Korea, specifically by sharpening their focus on the accountability for rights violations in North Korea. He asked the council at the General Assembly to create a panel of independent experts to devise a strategy to address the decades of citizen rights being abused in the country of North Korea. There is no justice in a totalitarian state, which only adds weight to the international community’s priority to bring accountability for the abuses. In the future, North Korean officials might back down from the worst abuses if the threat of criminalization is real.The UNHRC needs to send a message to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, and stand with the people of the country and support the rapporteur's proposal. That is the only way the human right violations will end. (Sifton and
Through the reports, North Korean officials have killed, tortured, raped, and starved the North Korean people with impunity, all under the policies that have been appointed at the highest level. The commission urged the UN Security Council to transfer the situation in North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold those responsible. In December of 2015, the second year in a row, the Security Council held a session to discuss North Korea’s terrible human rights situation as a threat the international peace and security. Later on, the UNHRC heard Marzuki Darusman, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, who expressed deep regret that despite the international attention, accountability will remain elusive, and the North Korean human rights situation will not improve over time. Marzuki called on UNHRC members to look into the actions committed by North Korea, specifically by sharpening their focus on the accountability for rights violations in North Korea. He asked the council at the General Assembly to create a panel of independent experts to devise a strategy to address the decades of citizen rights being abused in the country of North Korea. There is no justice in a totalitarian state, which only adds weight to the international community’s priority to bring accountability for the abuses. In the future, North Korean officials might back down from the worst abuses if the threat of criminalization is real.The UNHRC needs to send a message to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, and stand with the people of the country and support the rapporteur's proposal. That is the only way the human right violations will end. (Sifton and