North Korea's Organization and Guidance Department : the control tower of human rights denial
Robert M. Collins (Author), Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (Publisher)
"Though the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Constitution outlines human rights in Articles 62-86, these rights are not shaped by legislative or judicial paramount. Indeed, the Kim regime's system of human rights denial is shaped by ideology, the implementation of policies and practices at the central and regional levels, and through the centralized political control of leaders of all institutions in the Party-state. At the heart of this system is the Korean Workers' Party (KWP) Organization and Guidance Department (OGD). No other institution in North Korea comes close in terms of its role in human rights denial. This report seeks to explain the central role of the KWP OGD in suppressing human rights in favor of the Supreme Leader and Party interests. The OGD exists to further the interests of the Supreme Leader (Suryong) through enforcing the Monolithic Guidance System (MGS) and the Monolithic Ideology System (MIS), both of which are antithetical to human rights"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2019
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Washington DC, 2019