Human Rights Discourse in North Korea Post Colonial Marxist and Confucian Perspectives 1st Edition by Jiyoung Song ISBN 0415593948 9780415593946

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ISBN 10: 0415593948

ISBN 13: 9780415593946 

Author: Jiyoung Song 

This unique book examines the conceptual development of human rights in North Korea from historical, political and cultural perspectives.

Dr Jiyoung Song explains how North Korea has understood the concepts of human rights in its public documents since its independence from Japan in 1945. Through active campaigns and international criticism, foreign governments and non-governmental organisations outside North Korea have made numerous allegations of human rights violations. On the other hand, the efforts to engage with North Korea in order to improve the human rights situation through humanitarian assistance and to understand how North Koreans interpret human rights are often overshadowed by “naming and shaming” and “push-until-it-collapses” approaches. Using close readings and analyses of the collected works of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, as well interviews with North Korean defectors and diplomats in South Korea, China and Europe, Dr Song gives thought-provoking and highly debatable accounts for the historically post-colonial, politically Marxist and culturally Confucian elements of North Korean rights thinking.

As a piece of research on a nation shrouded in mystery this book will be essential reading for anyone researching human rights issues, Asian politics and international relations.

Table of contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Evolution Of International Human Rights

Chapter 2 Late Chosun Philosophies And Human Rights

Chapter 3 Post-Colonial People’s Rights: 1945–48

Chapter 4 The Marxist Rights Thinking Of The Dprk

Chapter 5 Human Rights In Juche Ideology

Chapter 6 ‘Our Style’ Of Human Rights

Conclusion

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