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Viewing cable 07SEOUL1997, NK HUMAN RIGHTS PROMINENT IN ROKG ACTION PLAN

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07SEOUL1997 2007-07-05 07:06 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Seoul
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DE RUEHUL #1997/01 1860706
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P 050706Z JUL 07
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INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 2739
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RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO PRIORITY 2847
RUALSFJ/COMUSJAPAN YOKOTA AB JA PRIORITY
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RHMFISS/COMUSKOREA J2 SEOUL KOR PRIORITY
RHMFISS/COMUSKOREA SCJS SEOUL KOR PRIORITY
UNCLAS SEOUL 001997 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL KS KN
SUBJECT: NK HUMAN RIGHTS PROMINENT IN ROKG ACTION PLAN 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1.  (SBU) The ROKG on May 22 unveiled its five-year National 
Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. 
 The 250-page report, which was compiled by the Ministry of 
Justice, touched on issues surrounding North Korean defectors 
in South Korea and efforts to improve human rights in the 
DPRK.  While some observers dismiss the Plan as a rhetorical 
exercise, others see it as a significant blueprint for future 
ROKG administrations. END SUMMARY. 
 
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THE NATIONAL ACTION PLAN 
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2.  (SBU) The ROKG began drafting the 2007-2011 National 
Action Plan (NAP) on Human Rights following the April 2001 
meeting of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural 
Rights.  The Committee recommended that the ROKG compile the 
NAP in compliance with the Vienna Declaration and Programme 
of Action," adopted at the 1993 UN World Conference on Human 
Rights.  While the Ministry of Justice coordinated with 
almost thirty ROKG agencies and organizations, the National 
Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was charged with drafting the 
initial version.  According to MOJ Human Rights Policy 
Division Director Lee Hyun-joo, the final report was more 
expansive on North Korea issues than proposed in the initial 
draft.  Lee told us on June 28 that the NHRC opposed 
including a section on North Korean human rights because it 
believed that ROK jurisdiction over human rights ended at the 
DMZ.  During the course of inter-agency debate, however, the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) argued strongly 
that the ROKG could no longer remain silent in the 
international community.  Lee said that the MOJ decided to 
adopt the MOFAT recommendation when similar positions were 
voiced by experts in two rounds of public hearings. 
 
3.  (SBU)  The ROKG plans to submit a summary of the NAP to 
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human 
Rights in Geneva.  In addition, MOJ's Human Rights Policy 
Division will publish yearly reports evaluating the ROKG's 
compliance with the report. 
 
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RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE 
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4.  (SBU) The NAP highlighted many measures already contained 
in the 1997 North Korean Defectors Protection and 
Resettlement Support Act.  For example, according to the 
February 2007 amendment to the Act, North Korean resettlers 
would be able to divorce spouses who are still in North 
Korea.  They would also be entitled to employment subsidies 
for an extended period of time and be eligible for additional 
vocational training, employment counseling and residential 
assistance. According to the Support Act, as highlighted by 
the NAP, the ROKG will provide North Korean resettlers with 
the incentive to stay in one job by increasing the amount of 
employment subsidies as follows: first-year employees will 
receive $4,500 rather than $2,000; second-year employees will 
receive $5,000 rather than $3,000; and third-year employees 
will receive $5,500 rather than $4,000. 
 
5.  (SBU) The ROKG will also ease the requirements for 
companies that hire North Korean resettlers to be designated 
as government priority procurement companies; increase the 
expertise of job employment officers; expand employment 
opportunities by having regular job fairs. 
 
6.  (SBU) In addition, the NAP calls for enhancing 
educational programs for North Korean teenagers by developing 
a teachers' manual; expanding after-school classes for North 
Korean students; and, perhaps, designating an education 
officer for North Korean teenagers in concentrated 
residential areas.  Further, starting from 2007, there will 
be regularized human rights education programs for Hanawon 
officials.  Starting from 2008, there will be human rights 
education programs for welfare, employment and residence 
protection officers.  Overall there will be an expansion of 
human rights education programs to other ministries that work 
on resettlement programs for North Korean defectors. 
 
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EXPANDING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION 
--------------------------------------------- --------------- 
 
7.  (SBU) The Plan reiterates current principles governing 
humanitarian cooperation projects.  Accordingly, the ROKG 
will maintain the position that humanitarian assistance to 
the DPRK should continue considering the humanitarian 
situation in the North.  The ROKG will provide rice and 
fertilizer assistance based on the North's implementation of 
the February 13 agreement.  With respect to NGO humanitarian 
assistance projects, the ROKG will respect the freedom of 
groups to choose assistance projects, but encourages groups 
to focus on vulnerable groups, including women and children. 
The government will also expand its support to NGOs from the 
Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund in the form of matching funds. 
 
8.  (SBU) With regard to human rights, the NAP calls on the 
ROKG to increase diplomatic activities at the UN General 
Assembly and Human Rights Council.  Specifically, it would 
promote international interest in North Koreans' right to 
life; call for more international humanitarian assistance and 
human rights-related technical cooperation projects with the 
DPRK; call for dialogue and cooperation between the DPRK and 
the international community; and support the activities of 
the UN Special Rapporteur for North Korea Human Rights.  This 
could include supporting bilateral or multilateral 
cooperation with the U.S., Japan and European Union on North 
Korean human rights; supporting activities of domestic and 
international North Korean human rights NGOs; and continuing 
efforts to resettle North Korean defectors and resolve the 
separated family and POW issues. 
 
9.  (SBU) There is a split among the NGO community over the 
significance of the NAP.  Yoon Yeo-sang, President of 
NKDatabase dismissed the document as purely political.  "Just 
words," he said.  Others, such as Citizens' Alliance for 
North Korea Human Rights Chairman Benjamin Yoon, saw more 
meaning.  Yoon said that the report had important symbolic 
significance and could form an action plan for future ROK 
administrations.  He also pointed out that the final version 
was more expansive on North Korean human rights than the 
version recommended by the National Human Rights Commission. 
He said that reflected a growing recognition within 
government circles that the ROKG should be more proactive on 
human rights. 
 
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COMMENT 
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10.  (SBU) The significance of the NAP is not in the 
substance -- the report in fact breaks little new ground in 
actual policy on human rights and resettlement assistance. 
However, the fact that North Korean human rights was included 
at all reflects growing unease within the ROKG over its 
historic reticence and will make the Human Rights 
Commission's silence -- based on jurisdictional arguments 
rejected through the ROKG interagency process -- harder to 
maintain. 
 
VERSHBOW