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Today marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers’ Party in 1945.

North Korea has been gearing up for huge celebrations. The party has ruled uninterrupted since then and has established an ideological stranglehold on the country. North Korea is a police state in which dissent is punishable by death.

According to the International Coalition to Stop Crimes against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK), it’s not an anniversary which deserves to be marked. “Given the decades of horrific rights abuses committed in the name of Korean Workers’ Party, this 70th anniversary should be mourned, not celebrated,” said its secretary general Eunkyoung Kwon.

North Korean under its young leader Kim Jong Un has embarked on a programme of significant economic liberalisation which has seen its economy grow sharply. It’s no long a starving country. However, politically it is as repressive as ever. .

ICNK, a network of rights campaigners including Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Human Rights watch, says: “North Korea continues to systematically and pervasively violate human rights through public executions, torture, forced labour, sexual violence, food deprivation, incarceration in political prisoner camps (kwan-li-so), and the denial of the freedom of expression, thought and religious belief.”

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