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The recommendations made by the U.N. Commission on the Investigation of Human Rights in North Korea in 2014 have not been implemented for seven years, a report by the British Parliament says. The U.N. Security Council has recommended raising interest in North Korea's human rights and setting up an organization to resume discussions. Reporter Kim Young-kwon reports.

A group of bipartisan lawmakers (APPG-NK) in the British Parliament released a report on human rights violations in North Korea on the 20th.

The report concluded that the human rights situation in North Korea has improved little since 2014 when the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (COI) released its final report to collect evidence of human rights violations by the regime and identify atrocities.

The report says the 2014 COI report shed light on the nature and seriousness of atrocities and recommendations to the United Nations and countries, but the human rights situation in North Korea has not improved and the recommendation itself has not been implemented except for some minorities.

[UK APPG-NK Report] appg-nk 보고서] "the findings of the inquiry suggest that, despite the commission of inquiry's 2014 report shedding light on the nature and severity of the atrocities, and its several recommendations for the un and states, the situation of human rights in the dprk has not improved, and the recommendations have not been implemented seven years later, 일부 사소한 예외는 제외하고요.

Seven years later, North Korean officials continued to engage in human rights violations, including murder, torture, inhumane or insulting punishment, rape and sexual violence, forced abortion, modern slavery and religious or religious persecution.

In the report, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in North Korea urged the North Korean government to make fundamental political and institutional reforms, to abolish ingredient discrimination, to refer North Korea's human rights to the International Criminal Court, and to adopt sanctions aimed at those responsible for crimes against humanity.

Michael Kirby, a former Australian Supreme Court justice, said in a special report that "the key characteristics of human rights violations revealed in the report by the UN and related organizations remain the same."

[Former Chairman Kirby] "유감스럽게도, 부분적으로는 유엔과 그 기관들의 부주의로 인해 COI 보고서에 공개된 인권 침해의 주요 특징은 COI가 보고했을 때와 똑같이 오늘날 남아 있습니다. 유엔의 대부분의 국가들은 COI 보고서에서 드러나는 문제들을 외면했습니다.

"Most U.N. member states have turned a blind eye to the issues revealed in the COI report."

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the British Parliament expressed concern in the report that three of the victims of anti-humanitarian crimes in North Korea are also close to genocide.

Some atrocities against three groups, Christian, Chinese mixed-race and hostile, have reasons to assume that they are close to the genocide category defined by the international community.

[UK APPG-NK Report] appg-nk 보고서] "the atrocities amount to crimes against humanity. 그러나 일부 잔학행위가 집단 학살의 문턱에 도달했다고 믿는 이유는 있습니다. 특히 다음과 같은 세 집단과 관련하여 말입니다. 기독교인, 중국계 혼혈아, 그리고 '적대' 집단입니다."

The report pointed out that the North Korean leadership is persecuting the three groups with the intention of destroying them, including various atrocities, and that such actions could amount to a U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Collective Murder.

He explained that Christians who are imprisoned or executed in political prison camps due to threats to the system, who are forced to abort when married and pregnant women are sent to the North from China, and those who are hostile are discriminated against for generations.

Senator David Alton, co-chairman of the U.K. Parliament's "Partisan Congress on North Korea," said in a press release, "The international community should never forget North Koreans who are suffering from a lot of challenges and concerns around the world."

[Senator Alton] " 그렇게 많은 다른 국제 과제와 관심사에도 불구하고 국제 사회가 북한의고 고통 받는 사면 초가에 몰린 사람들 결코 잊어서는 안된다.영국 의회에서 우리의 자유와 자유를 우리가 사용하여 우리의 의무 행동과 모습이 그들을 대신해 말하는 것도 잊지 않는다.이 시기 적절한 보고서 널리read."야 한다.

"I will never forget my duty to speak out and act on behalf of North Koreans," Alton said, using the freedom of the British Parliament. "This timely report should be widely read.

The report makes various recommendations to the British government about the serious human rights situation in North Korea.

First, the British government recommended that all North Koreans should be actively involved in ensuring that they are guaranteed all human rights, including freedom of faith.

He also said the U.N. Security Council should work with countries that maintain similar positions, including the U.S. government, to call for renewed interest in North Korea's human rights issues and increase the frequency of meetings.

He also recommended that the U.N. report on China and Russia's veto threats in the Security Council should seriously examine the two countries' implicit testing of target sanctions and Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter on the International Criminal Court's referral.

Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter stipulates the principles of the use of force by the U.N. and details measures "on threats to peace, the destruction of peace and the act of aggression."

The report also said the British government should actively cooperate with related organizations to resolve North Korea's problems based on the "responsibility" (R2P) that the international community, including the U.N., should intervene if certain countries fail to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes.

The U.N. Human Rights Commission (COI) earlier pointed out in its final report that "the international community must acknowledge its responsibility to protect North Koreans from crimes against humanity, as the North Korean government has clearly failed to protect its citizens."

The report also recommends that the British government review and discuss UN COI recommendations to establish a human rights contact group on North Korea to ensure regular discussions and support human rights initiatives.

Timothy Cho, the co-writer of the report, told VOA that he expects the report to serve as a spark to revive efforts to improve human rights in North Korea.

[Recording: Timothy Cho] "The House and Senate will continue to remind and hold hearings, and the European Union countries, Canada, the United States and others will have influence."

Kirby, former chairman of the U.N. Human Rights Commission on North Korea, said in a press release that "one strategy that the regime has always pursued is a 'Kingdom of Hermit' and "transparency and international interest in North Korea's human rights issues is a solution to isolation and non-cooperation."

I'm Kim Youngkwon from VOA News.

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