It appears that new South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is going to start backing up his words in regards to the North Korean human rights situation with actions:
South Korea will vote in favor of a U.N. resolution expressing concerns about human rights in North Korea, a senior official said Wednesday, a move that could […]

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Incredibly I actually thought Amnesty International had found time a way from doing things like their “Wear Orange Day” in solidarity with Gitmo terrorists to get around to condemning the executions of 15 North Korean refugees:
The Associated Press reported Friday that the human rights group Amnesty International urged North Korea to halt summary executions of […]

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Just another sign of how desperate the State Department is to go to any length to get North Korea to comply with the Agreed Framework 2.0:
The U.S. State Department is choosing its words carefully in preparing its annual report assessing human rights conditions in other countries, specifically North Korea, the focus of stalled nuclear disarmament […]

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I’m firmly in the camp that this is something I will have to see to believe:
The just-inaugurated Lee Myung-bak administration on Monday made it clear to the international community that it will get more active on the human rights of North Koreans than the previous two administrations. The new South Korean government represented by Park […]

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When the North Korean authorities are not busy shooting repatriated defectors, they are busy shooting people who had the nerve to make a phone call:

A new report says the head of a state-run firm in North Korea was executed last year for making an international call without permission from authorities.
Reporters Without Borders said in […]

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Today the leftists around the world are having a "Wear Orange Day" to protest against the forced fattening of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay detention facility.  I have plenty of thoughts about Guantanamo Bay but the sheer hypocrisy of the American as well the global left has never been more apparent than with this Wear Orange […]

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For those that have not already seen it, the very well done Seoul Train documentary that highlights the plight of North Korean refugees is China has been uploaded on YouTube and I highly recommend everyone with even only the remotest interest in North Korea to watch this documentary. 
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There is quite a big difference currently on the way on how presidential transitions are being conducted in South Korea.  Here is quite an unsurprising tale from the presidential transition period in 2002 after Roh Moo-hyun won the South Korean election:

Together with the ministry officials whose faces will have turned pale before the committee, I […]

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These early statements by South Korean president elect Lee Myung-bak are encouraging, but I would have to see real action before I believe them:
South Korea’s President-elect Lee Myung-bak said Thursday that he would not hesitate to criticize North Korea’s authoritarian government, one day after he won a landslide victory pledging to get tough with Pyongyang. […]

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UPDATE: One Free Korea has more details on the litigation issue and actually proposed such a measure himself a few months back.
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I know it will never happen, but could you imagine Kim Jong-il in a courtroom?
A leading U.S. law firm on Wednesday released a report on ways to take legal action over the North Korean […]

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Just another day in North Korea, nothing to see here:

North Korea has apparently stepped up public executions this year. The Stalinist country had carried out fewer public executions since 2000, but according to Seoul-based relief agency Good Friends, they increased this year.
An official with the NGO said public executions are still used as a means […]

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This coincidence is truly amazing and appropriate:
 Nov. 17, 2005 marks exactly 100 years since Nov. 17, 1905 — two dates the U.S. magazine Weekly Standard in an early 2006 issue described as days of “national humiliation” for Korea. Headlined, “A Korean Day of Infamy”, the op-ed piece says, “There’s hardly ever a dull moment in […]

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