North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks

The evidentiary weight of North Korean defectors' testimony depicting crimes against humanity has drawn considerable attention from the international community in recent years. Despite the attention to North Korean human rights, what remains unexamined is the rise of the transnational advocacy network, which drew attention to the issue in the first place. Andrew Yeo and Danielle Chubb explore the 'hard case' that is North Korea and challenge existing conceptions of transnational human rights networks, how they operate, and why they provoke a response from even the most recalcitrant regimes. In this volume, leading experts and activists assemble original data from multiple language sources, including North Korean sources, and adopt a range of sophisticated methodologies to provide valuable insight into the politics, strategy, and policy objectives of North Korean human rights activism.

Andrew Yeo is an Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Asian Studies at Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He is the author of Activists, Alliances, and Anti-US Base Protests (Cambridge, 2011) and co-editor of Living in an Age of Mistrust: An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back (2017). He received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.

Danielle Chubb is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and member of the POLIS research network at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. She is the author of Contentious Activism and Inter-Korean Relations (2014). Before arriving at Deakin University in 2012, she worked as a Research Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, and completed her Ph.D. in International Relations at the Australian National University.