North Korea | July 12, 2024
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As NK News reported on 19 March 2024, China defended its policy of repatriating North Korean citizens in front of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva in March 2024, thus implicitly defending the North Korean regime.
Meanwhile, as reported by NK News on 5 April 2024, the UNHRC adopted a resolution on 5 April 2024 calling for an update to the 2014 Commission of Inquiry (COI) on North Korean human rights abuses. The 2014 COI documented extensive human rights violations in the DPRK and formally recommended that North Korea be referred to the International Criminal Court (UNHRC, 17 February 2014).
World Watch Research analyst Thomas Muller comments: “It is the long-standing policy of China that North Korean migrants cannot be seen as refugees, defectors or even escapees, but are simply entering the country for economic reasons and should therefore not enjoy any differential treatment. This ignores the relatively easy alternative of sending all North Korean citizens straight on to South Korea. The UN-China clash in Geneva illustrates that North Korea is far less isolated than often perceived from a Western perspective. For this reason, North Korean Christians cannot and do not hope for any relief from Western pressure and will continue to keep their faith as secret as possible.”
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