Improvement of North Korean Human Rights Act based on EU Human Rights Policy

Abstract

Although the main issue of North Korea is conducting nuclear tests, the issue of North Korean human rights has been continuously discussed in terms of the universality of human rights and the humanitarian intervention of the state. Each of the stakeholders who formulated and supported the North Korean Human Rights Act would present the key principles of establishing human rights of the North Korean people and observing the human rights of the North Korean government, while dealing with the human rights issue in the relationship between the parties as major details. In this paper, the human rights policy would be examined in terms of Constructionism and analyzed the characteristics of EU human rights policy and the EU’s North Korea human rights policy. This paper illustrates the EU’s human rights policy and analyzes the practical policies for promoting changes in human rights awareness in the international community. This study initiates how the enactment of the North Korean Human Rights Act affects the preference and identity of North Korea, in terms of the logic of Constructionism. Moreover this study demonstrates the enacted Act, the North Korea Human Rights Act, in the past year and suggests improvement proposal.