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.
목차
Abstract I. Modernization Theory and Democratization II. Human rights policy from the perspective of Constructionism:Formation of norms and sharing of ideas III. North Korea's perception and trend in the EU 1. Characteristics of the EU human rights policy 2. Characteristics of the EU Human Rights Policy in North Korea IV. Characteristics and Improvement of North Korea's Human Rights Act in Korea 1. North Korea's Human Rights Act in Korea 2. Improvement of North Korea's Human Rights Act in Korea V. Conclusion References
키워드
Human Rights in North KoreaEuropean UnionConstructionismNorth Korean Human Rights Act
저자
Hyun-Jung Kim [ Graduate School of International Studies, Dong-A University, Korea ]