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New envoy for North Korean rights announced by Foreign Ministry

Lee Shin-hwa [MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS]

Lee Shin-hwa [MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS]

 
Lee Shin-hwa will be the new envoy for North Korean human rights, South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Tuesday. The position has been left vacant for five years during the Moon Jae-in administration.
 
Lee, currently a professor of political science at Korea University, will fill the post of the nation's human rights envoy and will be in charge of international cooperation for the promotion of human rights in North Korea.
 
Lee has written extensively on North Korea and international cooperation, and has previously served as a special advisor to former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Rwandan Independent Inquiry, chair’s advisor of the East Asian Vision Group, and was an Advisory Group member of Peacebuilding Fund.
 
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it will continue to cooperate with the international community to improve the human rights of and humanitarian situation in North Korea.
 
The North Korean Human Rights Act, which came into effect in 2016, states that the South Korean government may appoint a North Korean human rights ambassador to promote human rights in North Korea.
 
Previously, Lee Jung-hoon, professor of international studies at Yonsei University, was appointed as the first North Korean human rights envoy in September 2016 and served for one year. The position has since been left vacant.
 
The exact date of when Lee will start her duties has not yet been disclosed.

BY LIM JEONG-WON [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]
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