South-Korea, to inaugurate center meant to probe and collect North Korea’s human rights abuses

World News Nilgun Salim
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The South Korean state announced on Monday the opening of a new humanitarian center. The new institution is meant to investigate and register the abuses of North Korea against the human rights.

The new organization comes as a result of implementing a new legislation meant to improve the human rights situation in North Korea.

The South Korean Ministry of Reunification stated that the Center for Investigation and Documentation of Human Rights in North Korea will start its work on Wednesday. The new entity will be affiliated with the ministry. According to a law, which came into force on September 4, South Korea has the right to create archives and civic organizations to improve the critical situation of human rights in North Korea.

‘The main purpose of the center will be investigated and register abuses and to manage the rights of the prisoners of war detained in the North Korean state and of separated families and abductees’, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Reunification, Jeong Joon-hee.

Most times, the North Korean government reacted at the accusations regarding the human rights violations, labeling them as an attempt by the U.S. to overthrow the Pyongyang Administration.

According to the Korea Times, on Wednesday the center will inaugurate its opening by conducting a ceremony attended by a group of diplomats. In mid-September, the ministry set up a new bureau aimed at better implementing the law.

The Korean peninsula has been labeled as one of the worst human rights violators in the world.