The evidentiary weight of North Korean defectors’ testimony depicting crimes against humanity has drawn considerable attention from the international community in recent years. Despite the ramped up attention to North Korean human rights, what remains unexamined is the rise of the transnational advocacy network which drew attention to the issue in the first place. In a recent book edited by Andrew Yeo and Danielle Chubb, North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks (Cambridge University Press 2018), a team of scholars trace the emergence and evolution of North Korean human rights activism and challenge existing conceptions of transnational advocacy, how they operate, and why they provoke a response from even the most recalcitrant regimes. In this event, two contributors to the book and a leading figure in the North Korean human rights campaign share insights into the politics, strategy, and policy objectives of North Korean human rights activism in both domestic and transnational contexts.
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Speakers
Andrew Yeo, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Catholic University of America
Celeste Arrington, Korea Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The George Washington University
Greg Scarlatoiu (Discussant), Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea