탈북 북한선원 강제북송 관련 국제구국연대 성명서

 탈북 북한선원 강제북송 관련                                                                        

국제구국연대 성명서

"호주, 캐나다, 독일, 뉴질랜드, 그리고 미국에 거주하는 해외동포들로 구성된 국제구국연대는, 대한민국 문재인정부의 국제인권법 위반행위에 대하여 세계의 자유국가들이 모두 규탄해 줄 것을 촉구합니다."

 

이하는 2019년 12월 20일 자 성명서(영문) 전문 

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                                               STATEMENT     

We, Save Korea Alliance International (SKAI), comprised of the overseas Korean compatriots residing in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United States, urge all the free nations of the world to denounce the Moon Jae-in government of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) for violating the international human rights laws.

 

Early in November 2019 South Korea's Moon Jae-in government (Moon government) forcibly repatriated two North Korean fishermen, who defected to the South, back to North Korea (DPRK). It is a flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other international human rights laws, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). What's more deplorable is that the violations perpetrated by the Moon government in the course of the incident have been neither apologized for nor accounted for at all, implying that it was not an isolated misstep. 

            

It is really shocking to see that the South Korean government, which, via its own Constitution, shares the same value of freedom, human rights, democracy and the rule of law with other free nations of the world, has acted in such an awful and uncivilized manner. And we feel imperative that this incident be addressed in the strongest possible terms because (1) it shows that South Korea's Moon government legitimizes, in effect, North Korea's criminal justice system, which is so heinous and egregious, having  no parallel in the contemporary world, and (2) it sets a dangerous precedent for allowing the North Korean regime to demand repatriation of other North Korean defectors who have been already resettled in South Korea.      

 

Therefore, we earnestly urge all the free nations of the world to issue a denouncing statement in order to place diplomatic pressure on Moon government as well as on Kim Jong-un regime of North Korea, as follows:  

                                                                                                                

1. With respect to South Korea's Moon government

- Express deep concern over the said forcible repatriation of two North Korean defectors back to the North; and

- Urge the Moon government to take corrective actions, ensuring compliance with the international human rights laws, including ICCPR and CAT, in the future.

 

2. With respect to North Korea's Kim Jong-un regime

- Urge the regime to disclose the whereabouts of those two North Korean defectors repatriated by South Korea's Moon government, and to treat them with humanity; and

- Urge the regime to comply with the United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the Situation of Human Rights in the DPRK adopted on December 18,  2019, and the recommendations made in the 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry's report on human rights in the DPRK.  

                                                                                                                         

Dated this 20th day of December, 2019

 

Save Korea Alliance International(SKAI)

Contact: Kyung B. Lee (1)416-554-9605         

               hrnkcanada928@gmail.com

 

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In Support,

 

Tae Hoon Kim,          

Lawyers for Human Rights and Unification of Korea              

Seoul, Korea                                                                                   

 

Gwang Il Jung

No Chain for North Korea

Seoul, Korea

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Endorsed by:                                         

 

Intak Lee, Esq., Virginia, USA and 32 other Community Leaders