The U.N. Human Rights Council has just approved its fourth special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the DPRK: Dr. Elizabeth Salmón. The first woman to be chosen for the position, the Council’s President selected her from a list of eight applicants ranked by a group of ambassadors from different geographic regions. Salmón will begin Aug. 1 and will serve for a maximum of six years without remuneration. During that time she should emerge as the principal voice on the international stage for North Korea’s human rights situation.

Like her predecessors, Salm