Letter from Human Rights Watch and NGOs to Kim Jong Un

June 6, 2018 Kim Jong Un Chairman, State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Building of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Pyongyang Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Dear Chairman Kim Jong Un, As your government undertakes new efforts to increase its engagement with the rest of the world, we urge you to move rapidly to institute lasting improvements to the dire human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). In the Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity, and Unification of the Korean Peninsula that you…

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