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In 2019, North Korea was ranked as the worst country in the world in terms of Christian persecution by international Catholic aid organization Aid to the Church in Need. [6] In 2023, the country was ranked as the worst place in the world to be a Christian by Open Doors. [7] In 2023, the country was scored zero out of 4 for religious freedom. [8]
One interpretation has held that all open religious activity in North Korea was persecuted and eradicated after Kim Il-sung took power, only to be revived in the present as part of a political show. [39] Another interpretation has held that religion survived and has genuinely been revived in the past few decades. [39]
The persecution of Christians in North Korea is an ongoing and systematic human rights violation in North Korea. [3] [4] [5] According to multiple resolutions which have been passed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the North Korean government considers religious activities political crimes, [6] because they could challenge the personality cult of Kim Il Sung and his family.
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict the practiced Juche ideology. [1]
The Korean peninsula, with China and Russia as its Northern neighbors, and Japan to the East and South. Korea had for centuries been a high-ranking tributary state within the Imperial Chinese tributary system, [i] until in the late 19th century Japan began to assert greater control over the Korean peninsula, culminating in its annexation in 1910.
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[1] Shigeo Iizuka, Chairman of the Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea gives his testimony at the UN. Korean War abductees: The DPRK experienced a loss of population and labor before the Korean War when landowners, intellectuals and religious people who felt threatened fled the country. During the war, more people were ...