Out now in Open Access: Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings & her collaborators examine how insights from the transitional justice literature can be applied to North Korea, where the political system prevents grassroots, participatory approaches to accountability, truth-telling, commemoration and reconciliation.

Participatory Transitional Justice as Anticipatory Project: North Korea, Diasporas and Uncertain Futures

ABSTRACT∞. This article examines how insights from the transitional justice literature can be applied to North Korea, where the political system prevents g

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A thoughtful piece on the politics of North Korean human rights inside South Korea - a small part of an important dynamic that is not well understood outside Korea.

The Lowy Institute@lowyinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

“Institutionalising North Korean human rights policy should not come at the expense of diplomacy or humanitarian engagement,” writes Jiwon Kim in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/time-consistent-approach-north-korean-human-rights

My latest on the escalating crisis in the North Korean human rights community: a Congressional Briefing paper for the National Bureau of Asian Research www.nbr.org/publication/...

It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues. Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · last yr.

My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth​, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...

Some of my thoughts on recent NED cuts and the implication for the North Korean human rights movement theconversation.com/another-us-f...

Another US funding cut threatens human rights in North Korea - and hands more power to a dictator

Human rights in one of the world’s most egregious authoritarian regimes are set to be diminished even further, thanks to another sudden funding freeze by Elon Musk.

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“It’s by far the biggest crisis facing NGOs working on [North Korean human rights] since the start of the movement in the 1990s" - @sokeel.bsky.social of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) www.voanews.com/a/north-kore...

North Korea rights groups face collapse amid US funding halt

The vast majority of human rights groups focused on North Korea face an existential crisis after receiving notices from the U.S. government that their grant funds have been frozen, according to severa...

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Nice to be back attending events for 2025, with an excellent @lowyinstitute.bsky.social panel at the State Library of Victoria.

Our Officer-at-Large created this starter pack for people working on foreign policy in general. If you'd like to be added let us know :) 👇

Consuelo Thiers@consuelothiers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here a starter pack for people working on foreign policy. Contact me to add you. go.bsky.app/GysdG6U

Why are key DC think tanks being so restrained about Yoon's martial law declaration? Despite championing "freedom" 39 times in a recent speech, Yoon's decision marked a disturbing trend. But the response from key players has been strikingly muted. A 🧵 koreapro.org/2024/12/yoo...

Wrote this last night in the heat of the situation... two hours later, Yoon u-turned and backed down on his martial law gambit. Some updates on what this means via 🧵 form... www.nknews.org/pro/what-yoo...

Things already starting to move in response to Yoon's failed martial law attempt: The KCTU, one of South Korea's biggest unions, has declared an “indefinite general strike” until Yoon resigns. They also plan a major rally in downtown Seoul early Wednesday. www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_202...

[속보] 민주노총 "오늘부터 무기한 총파업...오전 9시 광화문 집결"

[민주노총 긴급 투쟁 방침]1. 민주노총은 12월 4일 08시에 민주노총 중앙집행위원회 기자회견을 진행하고 이를 시작으로 윤석열정권 퇴진시까지 무기한 총파업에 돌입한다...

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