Injuries in North Korea: Addressing a Looming Crisis
Road crashes, collapsing buildings, work accidents, nuclear weapons, food shortages and human rights dominate the headlines about North Korea. But…
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Human Security
Looking at North Korea through the UN’s human security lens including: economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political security.
North Korea’s Food Situation: Bad but not Catastrophic
North Korea’s food situation is confusing. The World Food Program (WFP) and the North Korean government have effectively conveyed the…
A Proposal to Reduce Malaria Across the Korean Peninsula: Another Opportunity for Inter-Korean Cooperation
Introduction There is a malaria epidemic across the Korean Peninsula, and South Korea (Republic of Korea, ROK) and North Korea…
A New UN Approach to Human Rights in North Korea: The 2017 Special Rapporteur’s Report
As the UN Security Council prepares to meet next week to draw the connection between North Korea’s human rights practices…