Korea Institute for National Unification

The Korea Institute for National Unification is a think tank funded by the South Korean government focusing on issues related to Korean reunification.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Korea Institute for National Unification

통일연구원
Predecessor	Research Institute for National Unification
Formation	1990 (founded under the Ministry of Unification)
Type	Think tank
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Website	www.kinu.or.kr/main/eng

History

In 1990, the institute was established as a hub of research on North Korea.[5]

In 2010, the institute carried out an interview with 33 defectors from North Korea and found out that the spread of Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, was one of the main factors encouraging some North Koreans to risk their lives to escape to South Korea.[7]

Publications

White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea

The Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) opened the Center for North Korean Human Rights, in December 1994, to collect and manage professionally and systematically all source materials and objective data concerning North Korean human rights; and from 1996, KINU has been publishing every year the ‘White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea’ in Korean and in English.[6][8]

• White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2014
• White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013
• White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2012

Reports and analyses

• Law and Policy on Korean Unification: Analysis and Implications
• Improving Human Rights in North Korea
• 2nd KINU-ASPI 1.5 Track Streategic Dialogue
• The Road to a ‘Happy Unification’
• The Trust-building Process and Korean unification

International Journal of Korean Unification Studies

• vol. 24, no. 1
• 23, no. 2
• vol. 23, no. 1

References

1. French, Howard W. (March 17, 2000). "Suddenly, Reclusive North Korea Reaches Out to the World". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved Sep 3, 2015.
2. Sutton, Scott (July 7, 2015). "Report: North Korea has publicly executed an insane amount of people since 2000". Sun Times. Archived from the original on September 3, 2015. Retrieved Sep 3, 2015.
3. Kim, Seong Hwan (July 2, 2015). "Report reveals app. 1,382 N. Koreans publicly executed since 2000". DailyNK. Archived from the original on July 6, 2015. Retrieved Sep 3, 2015.
4. Barrabi, Thomas (July 7, 2015). "Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea Scrutinizing Workers, Officials Abroad After Defections, Report Says". International Business Times. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved Sep 3, 2015.
5. "Mission & History". Seoul, Korea: Korean Institute For National Unification. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved Sep 3, 2015.
6. Kirby, Michael Donald; Biserko, Sonja; Darusman, Marzuki (7 February 2014). "Report of the detailed findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - A/HRC/25/CRP.1". United Nations Human Rights Council. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. ""Korean Wave" set to swamp North Korea, academics say". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
8. Han, Dong-ho; Kim, Soo-Am; Lee, Kyu-Chang; Lee, Keum-Soon; Cho, Jeong-Ah (July 2014). Center for North Korean Human Rights Studies (ed.). "White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2014". White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea. Center for North Korean Human Rights, Korea Institute for National Unification: 19. ISBN 978-89-8479-766-6. Archived from the original on January 10, 2015. Retrieved Jun 8, 2015.

External links

• Korea Institute for National Unification