| Srl | Item |
| 1 |
ID:
050471
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
Feb 2004.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
Proposals in the USA's brownback bill to improve human rights in North Korea do not address the country's real needs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
ID:
127769
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
2014.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Commission of Inquiry, established in 2013 to investigate human rights violations in North Korea, identified food rights violations, among other abuses, as potentially constituting crimes against humanity. A contradiction arises in that UNHRC claims of food rights violations in the DPRK are not congruent with the statistical indicators emanating from the UN humanitarian and development agencies that have worked in the DPRK since the mid 1990s and that have engaged in and published substantial research on food, nutrition, and health. The author of this article contends that North Korea has an oppressive government and argues that the lack of transparency makes the many things that are unknown about North Korea, especially its opaque penal system, of legitimate ethical and political concern. Reasonably good data on issues pertaining to social and economic rights do exist, however, as this article shows. The inconsistency between the received wisdom on food and nutrition is of concern because the potential consequences of a state being judged as committing crimes against humanity include military intervention and consequent threats to life for millions. This article reconsiders how and why the received wisdom becomes unchallenged and unchallengeable in scholarly, policy, and media discourse. Inconsistency and misrepresentation is not primarily due to conscious bias but much more because of the unconscious adoption of a securitized perspective through which knowledge about North Korea is filtered. The article argues for reframing North Korean human rights issues on the basis that North Korean society is neither unique nor unknowable.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 3 |
ID:
171954
|
|
|
|
|
| Summary/Abstract |
If the legal foundation and political consensus underpinning United Nations resolutions suggests that North Korea's denuclearization can be understood as a just cause, were the means used by the United Nations also just? This essay draws on jus in bello analogies to analyze UN sanctions via standard ethical criteria of effectiveness, necessity and proportionality. It shows that UN sanctions did not fulfill the effectiveness criterion as they were never likely to result in the denuclearization of North Korea. The necessity condition was strained as the alternative instrument of diplomacy was not utilized in a sustained manner. Expanded sanctions from 2016 did not distinguish between the military and civilian economies. Stringent energy sanctions introduced in 2017 contributed significantly to a precipitous fall in agricultural production in 2018 such that the country could no longer feed about a third of the 25 million population. Post-2016 UN sanctions did not meet the proportionality criterion as they jeopardized the food security of millions of innocents. The DPRK government has primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens but this assumption does not abrogate the responsibilities of others. Broad UN sanctions on the DPRK are neither effective nor proportionate and are, therefore, unethical.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
ID:
078312
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
New York, United Nations University press, 2007.
|
| Description |
xiv, 407p.
|
| Standard Number |
9280811347
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
Circulation
| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 052495 | 363.34988/MIN 052495 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
|
|
|
|
| 5 |
ID:
006708
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
Houndmills, Macmillan, 1996.
|
| Description |
xv,221p.
|
| Standard Number |
0333626338
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
Circulation
| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 038500 | 327.5193/SMI 038500 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
|
|
|
|
| 6 |
ID:
062027
|
|
|
| 7 |
ID:
066296
|
|
|
| 8 |
ID:
056896
|
|
|
| 9 |
ID:
144812
|
|
|
| 10 |
ID:
081952
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
New York, United Nations University press, 2007.
|
| Description |
xvii, 296p.
|
| Standard Number |
9789280811445
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
Circulation
| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 053589 | 355.0330519/SMI 053589 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
|
|
|
|