Rob’s Reviews > Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record > Status Update

Rob
Rob is 56% done
Two things: I learned the story of a defector who left NK in 1997, went back a few years later when his SK business failed, set up a barbershop in the North, then re-defected to SK because it was "too repressive." And I'm like, "Have you tried Thailand?"

And also, she discusses North Korea's strategy of 'tu quoque" when faced with US human rights abuse criticism, and notes that it works "because it is true."
Oct 17, 2019 07:07PM
Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record (Contemporary Asia in the World)

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Rob
Rob is 40% done
Currently well into the section on life in prison camps. Anyone can recommend an antidepressant?
Oct 16, 2019 07:15PM
Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record (Contemporary Asia in the World)


Rob
Rob is 25% done
Finally made some progress after a long illness. The passages about the persecution of faith communities is heart-rending.
Oct 15, 2019 07:37PM
Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record (Contemporary Asia in the World)


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