NORTH KOREA HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATION IN THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (COI-DPRK)

Abstract

Human rights have become an international issue. Human rights are closely related to dignity as a human being so that human rights violations must be resolved with a sense of humanity. However, in the North Korean dialogue, the nuclear issue has become the focus of discussion, while North Korea has committed gross human rights violations against its people. With the establishment of COI-DPRK, it has become a movement that will facilitate discussion of North Korean human rights issues in the international community. Researchers use qualitative methods in analyzing the role of COI-DPRK in promoting North Korean human rights and collecting relevant data with document-based research techniques and internet-based research. The data collected by researchers will assist researchers in analyzing the role of COI-DPRK using cosmopolitanism theory. COI-DPRK to investigate the human rights violations that have been committed and provide the results to the UN Council. The publication of the results of the investigation carried out by COI-DPRK has helped the community support universal humanitarianism from the international community. Therefore, North Korea has received pressure from the international community to demand human rights reform in North Korea and make the agenda of human rights issues added to the dialogue related to North Korea.