2020년 전후 북한의 인권정책 분석과 평가

Abstract

North Korea enacted a Countermeasure Act that could respond by considering the international community’s accountability activities and human rights sanctions as defamation against North Korea and that established a crime of defamation on DPRK in the criminal law. In response to COVID-19, North Korea revised the Law on Prevention of Infectious Disease and enacted the Emergency Quarantine Law. By enforcing these laws, North Korea excessively regulated and punished North Koreans. Also North Korea strengthened controls and rules by tightening discipline within the WPK through punishment and reshuffles of officials. Especially North Korea strengthened ideological, information and culture control through enacting Public Report Act, Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act, Youth Education Security Act, Pyongyang Standard Language Protection Act and Law on the Administration of Revolutionary Relics. And control and punishment of drugs was strengthened through the revision of the Criminal Law and enactment of the Drug Crime Prevention Act. Meanwhile, North Korean authorities have continuously issued an order to ban human rights violations since COI establishment and then enacted Act on Prevention of Batteries. This indicates that international community’s consistent human rights policy toward North Korea can draw reality change and legislative change. Also in order to drawing North Korea’s change, international community continue information and culture dissemination activities.