August, 2004 to September, 2005, and an additional 300 North Korean
defectors in South Korea in November 2008. According to the survey, 55% of
the respondents in China stated that they had knowledge of human
experimentation taking place in North Korea and 5% had witnessed to
infanticide. 7% of the respondents in South Korea also confirmed their
personal witness to infanticide in North Korea. 51% of the respondents in
South Korea had witnessed public execution and the 60% of the respondents
in China had personally witnessed torture that had resulted in death while in
North Korea. In general, the survey demonstrated once again the degrading
treatment of prisoners and the grave extent14 of human rights abuse to which
North Korean defectors are subject when they are victims of forced
repatriation to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by Chinese
authorities.
Additionally, the Korean Bar Association publishes survey reports on
North Korean human rights situations on regular basis. Analysis of testimonies
related to PPC can be found in the North Korean Human Rights white papers
published by NKDB and Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU). In
particular, the white paper by NKDB presents information with statistical
analysis regarding prisoners and human rights violation cases. Additionally,
the Citizen’s Alliance for North Korea Human Rights and other North Korean
Human
Rights
organizations
including
the
North
Korean
organizations also publish testimonies of PPC in North Korea.
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defectors’