북한인권법 제정 이후 인권정책의 방향과 실천과제

Abstract

Since 2003, despite continuous discussion by our community regarding North Korea’s human right issues, passage of the bill was achieved only in the 19th National Assembly on March 2nd, 2016. Such breakthrough was made in 11 years after the proposal of North Korean Human Rights Act. The reason why it took a long period of time to pass the bill is that the law is complex and requires a lot of considerations due to the nature of multidimensional aspects. As it took 11 years until the passage of North Korean Human Rights Act, there will be numerous disputes in our society, in terms of policy, or in academic aspects in regards to human rights issues of North Korea in the future. For human rights issue of North Korea, there are a lot of considerations, such as domestic and international environment and structure, condition, and others. Regarding human rights issue of North Korea, two viewpoints exist at the same time that a question is raised about effectiveness of North Korean Human Rights Act, and establishment of North Korean Human Rights Act alone is already a strong warning to the North Korean regime. Therefore, in this thesis, we examined carefully the composition, details, and the feature of North Korean Human Rights Act, in addition to the direction of North Korean human rights policy, in terms of its structure and function.