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Let's talk about North Korea with
reporter Ahn Jong-sik.

Q. What is North Korea's reaction to the UN resolution on human rights in North Korea?

[Ahn Ahn-sik/North Korea Reporter: The UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution on North Korean human rights on 4 March as an agreement of member states without a vote, and North Korea protested through a statement in the name of North Korea's permanent representative in Geneva. North Korea has no human rights problems, and strongly condemns UN human rights resolutions.

Q. What is the North Korean law that the UN has taken issue with?

[Ahn Jong-sik/North Korea Reporter: It is called the "Reactionary Ideological Culture Rejection Act" enacted in December 2020. Importing or distributing South Korean videos is punishable by up to death, and even if you watch it, you can be sentenced to up to 12 years of hard labor. It is known that there are changes in some punishment provisions due to the revision of the law last year, but it can be said that it is a strong information control law. However, when the United Nations mentions this law on the rejection of reactionary ideology and culture in this human rights resolution, it is a huge law that provides online and offline freedom of thought, conscience, religion, belief, opinion, expression, It called for freedom of association to be guaranteed. We urged people not to take actions that attempt to prevent the circulation of information through strong penalties, that is, to violate the right to information, because it is a violation of human rights.]

Q. Why is North Korea sensitive?

[Ahn Ahn-sik/North Korea reporter: If we look again at the contents of the statement that North Korea gave through its representative in Geneva, we can see from what level North Korea views the law on the rejection of reactionary ideological culture. If you look again, in order to protect the sovereignty and security from the prayer of hostile forces, it has enacted the Law on the Rejection of Reactionary Ideological Culture to block outside information. The flip side of this statement is that if external information is allowed at will, there is a possibility that the North Korean system, that is, the North Korean system, will be overthrown. North Korea, the kingdom of the Kim Il Sung family, can only be maintained by blocking external information, so the demand to allow information to circulate is absolutely unacceptable. For North Korea, the perception that the influx of outside information is more threatening than a U.S. aircraft carrier seems to be reflected.]

(Video editing by Jung Seong-hoon)