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Chaewon Chung
Chaewon Chung covers U.S., Chinese, and Japanese politics and national security in relation to North Korea. She previously worked at Coda Story covering disinformation and technology with a focus on the East Asia.
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News North Korea calls Human Rights Watch a ‘puppet’ of the USThe nongovernmental organization has long documented human rights abuses inside the DPRK North Korea slammed the nonprofit Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday, calling the organization a “mouthpiece and puppet” of the U.S. over its reaction to alleged human rights violations in Afghanistan. North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) shared a statement by a senior researcher at an entity called the Association for Human Rights Studies, accusing HRW of duplicitousness for its “silence” about American conduct in Afghanistan. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |