NBC News Interview with Myeongchul Ahn
“… a former prison guard at Hoeryong-Area prison in North Korea. He worked at four different camps and discussed with NBC News the atrocities he saw — and committed — at those camps.” In 2003, Executive Directior Ahn Myeongchul describes in vivid detail his experiences working as a prison guard with NBC News. Read here
The Geoffrey Nice Foundation’s “A Report on the Legal Avenues to deal with Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” – Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for North Korea’s human rights violations
At Monday’s Conference on international advocacy to act to ensure accountability for North Korea’s human rights violations, the lawyers of the Geoffrey Nice Foundation – Ruby Peacock, Nathan Fuller, Holly Armstrong, and Adam Smith – presented key content online from A Report on the Legal Avenues to Deal with Human Rights Abuses in the DPRK. The […]
Executive Director Myeongchul Ahn’s Interview with the OHCHR
The Quest for Justice: A Former Prison Guard from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea speaks out. Executive Director Ahn Myeongchul’s interviews with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul regarding his experiences in North Korea and as a human rights activist. Click here to read more
Executive Director Myeongchul Ahn’s interview with Dong-A Ilbo
Ahn Myeongchul’s escape and the process of entering Korea changed in an instant.Ahn was a security guard at the 22nd Political Prison Camp (Total Control Zone) under the National Security Agency. He was a perpetrator who once suppressed North Koreans.However, his father’s sudden upheaval and subsequent defection made him an instant victim. Ahn’s family members […]
768 copies of petitions submitted to the UN Human Rights Office in Seoul
On October 22, NK Watch has submitted 768 petitions gathered from 2013 to 2019 regarding human rights violations in North Korea, including concentration camps and forced disappearances, to the UN Human Rights Office in Seoul. The petitions will be stored in the electronic repository of the UN Human Rights Office to preserve records of human […]
United Nations (A/75/271) quotes NK Watch report, July 30th, 2020
Report of the Special Rapporteur to the 76th session of the General Assembly of the Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (A/75/271), cited NK Watch regarding the size of political prisoner camps and prisoners p. 5/18 on July 30th, 2020. View Report
North Human Rights Academy: North Korea’s political prison camps
Myeongchul Ahn, Executive Director of NK Watch, has worked tirelessly to inform the international community of the reality of North Korea’s political prison camps and continues to advocate for human rights and democracy in the North. This lecture is on the “Anatomy of Political Prison Camps.” Part 1 Part 2
Diplomatic Briefing on Results of Universal periodic Review (UPR) 3rd Cycle and DPRK
NK Watch Program Director Kwanhyung Lee attended the Diplomatic Briefing on the Results of the Universal periodic Review (UPR) 3rd Cycle and DPRK at the EU Delegation. During the session, NGOs on DPRK human rights issues gave an analysis of DPRK’s response to the UPR 3rd cycle recommendations, and held a discussion on how EU […]
Executive Director Myeongchul Ahn gives special lecture on North Korean political prison camps at Humbolt University, Berlin, April 24th, 2017
Myeongchul Ahn, Executive Director of NK Watch, attended a seminar hosted by CSO SARAM at Humbolt University, Germany on April 24, 2017 and shared specific information about North Korea’s political prison camps.
Joint North Korean human rights strategy meeting with European civil society, April 23rd, 2017
From April 23rd to 24th, 2017, NK Watch held a joint North Korean human rights strategy meeting with European civil society.South Korea’s CSO International Solidarity for the Elimination of Crimes Against Humanitarian Affairs (ICNK), Germany’s CSO SARAM and Giordano-Bruno-Stiftung, the Netherlands’ Jeffrey Nice Foundation, and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs attended a strategic meeting […]
