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This week, the United Nations General Assembly met for its first-ever public high-level session devoted to North Korea's human rights situation. The meeting highlighted Pyongyang’s brutal repression of its citizens as a driver of global insecurity.
North Korean escapees Kim Eun Ju and Kang Gyu Li described the dehumanizing abuse and hunger they suffered inside North Korea. Eun Ju talked about watching her father die of starvation knowing the government was directing massive resources to the military. She also spoke of the hardships faced by North Korean soldiers sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Gyu Li spoke for the millions of North Koreans “deprived of fundamental rights,” recalling three friends who were executed for sharing South Korean television dramas. North Korea’s delegate at the General Assembly dismissed the escapees’ accounts.
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