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Human Rights in North Korea and the U.S. Strategy of Linkage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

John Feffer
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Though it would be difficult to find anyone in the United States who would praise North Korea for its dismal human rights record, this consensus by no means extends to practical foreign policy. In other words, there is broad agreement on what is wrong in North Korea, from the political labor camps to the lack of basic freedoms of speech and assembly, but little agreement on what to do about it or who should be doing it.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , e14
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End Notes

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5. Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, Hunger and Human Rights: The Politics of Famine (Washington: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, September 2005).

6. The North Korea Advisory Group (NKAG) included Benjamin Gilman (R-NY) and Christopher Cox (R-CA). NKAG's final 1999

7. See Karin Lee and Adam Miles, “North Korea on Capitol Hill,” Asian Perspective, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004.

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9. For more details, see John Feffer, “All Democracy, All the Time,” Salon, March 15, 2005.

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11. Confidential interviews with those involved in the report: “Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea),” Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee and Human Rights Watch/Asia, December 1988.

12. See reports from Amnesty International and more recent reports from Human Rights Watch.

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14. Michael Horowitz, “How to Win Friends and Influence Culture,” Christianity Today, September 2005.

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18. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Anchor, 2000).