FREEDOM NORTH KOREA: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN NORTH KOREA
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EVIDENCES: REPORTS ON LACK OF FREEDOMDPRK Religious Freedom Report - 2016 Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 2016 International Religious Freedom Report United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/268982.pdf) 4.2% of North Korean defectors have seen a Bible in North Korea. 10 pages Marked for Life: Songbun - 2012 North Korea's Social Classification System By Robert Collins The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/HRNK_Songbun_Web.pdf) Detailed report on how the Kim regime has remained in power by creating and using its Songbun system of "Core," "Wavering" and "Hostile" castes. 133 pages A Prison Without Bars - March 2008 Refugee and Defector Testimonies of Severe Violations of Freedom of Religion or Beliefs in North Korea By David Hawk, Jae Chun Won, Philo Kim US Commission on International Religious Freedom (http://www.uscirf.gov/images/A_Prison_Without_Bars/prisonwithoutbars.pdf) Update on the Thank You Father Kim Il Sung report of 2005 (see below) with 30 more recent interviews, including with former North Korean security agents. 64 pages North Korea: A Case to Answer, A Call to Act - May 2007 The urgent need to respond to mass killings, arbitrary imprisonment, torture and related international crimes. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) (http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=report&id=35) UK-based organization's report on North Korea's crimes against humanity, including against Christians. 113 pages Thank You, Father Kim Il Sung - November 2005 Eyewitness Accounts of Severe Violations of Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion in North Korea. By David Hawk, Jae Chun Won, Philo Kim US Commission on International Religious Freedom (http://www.uscirf.gov/images/stories/pdf/nkwitnesses_wgraphics.pdf) Interviews with 40 North Korean defectors, North Korean religious persecution, past and present. 126 pages The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps - September 2003 Prisoners’ Testimonies and Satellite Photographs By David Hawk U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (http://hrnk.org/wp-content/uploads/The_Hidden_Gulag.pdf) Prisoners' testimonies of torture, executions, infanticide and other atrocities in the North Korean political penal colonies, with marked satellite photographs. 120 pages |