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북한인권조사위원회(COI) 보고서(영문) - 2014.2.7

2014 유엔 북한인권조사위원회(COI) 보고서

< Contents >

I. Introduction............................................................................................................. 5

II. Mandate and methodology of the commission of inquiry................................... 5
  A. Origins of the mandate ........................................................................................... 5
  B. Interpretation of the mandate.................................................................................. 6
  C. Non-cooperation by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.......................... 8
  D. Methods of work.................................................................................................... 10
  E. Legal framework and standard of proof for reported violations ........................... 15
  F. Archiving and record-keeping of testimony ...........................................................18

III. Historical and political context to human rights violations in
      the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ....................................................... 19

  A. Pre-colonial history ................................................................................................ 19
  B. Japanese colonial occupation (1910 to 1945)......................................................... 20
  C. Division of the peninsula, the Korean War and its legacy...................................... 21
  D. Imposition of the Supreme Leader (suryong) system............................................. 27
  E. Consolidation of power under the Kim dynasty ..................................................... 34
  F. External dynamics and the human rights situation ................................................. 43

IV. Findings of the commission ................................................................................... 45
  A. Violations of the freedoms of thought, religion............................... 45
  B. Discrimination on the basis of State-assigned social class (songbun),
       gender and disability..................................................................................................74
  C. Violations of the freedom of movement and residence, including the
      freedom to leave one’s own country and the prohibition of refoulement ..................99
  D. Violations of the right to food and related aspects of the right to life .................... 144
  E. Arbitrary detention, torture, executions, enforced disappearance
      and political prison camps ....................................................................................... 208
  F. Enforced disappearance of persons from other countries,
      including through abduction..................................................................................... 270

V. Crimes against humanity......................................................................................... 319
  A. Definition of crimes against humanity under international law............................... 320
  B. Crimes against humanity in political prison camps ................................................. 323
  C. Crimes against humanity in the ordinary prison system........................................... 330
  D. Crimes against humanity targeting religious believers and others considered
      to introduce subversive influences............................................................................. 333
  E. Crimes against humanity targeting persons who try to flee the country................... 335
  F. Starvation................................................................................................................... 339
  G. Crimes against humanity targeting persons from other countries,
       in particular through international abductions ......................................................... 345
  H. A case of political genocide?.................................................................................... 350
  I. Prin***** findings of the commission ........................................................................ 351

VI. Ensuring accountability, in particular for crimes against humanity................. 352
  A. Institutional accountability ...................................................................................... 352
  B. Individual criminal accountability............................................................................ 359
  C. Responsibility of the international community......................................................... 363

VII. Conclusions and recommendations...................................................................... 365