Report: Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and the Right to Freedom of Religion, Thought, and Conscience in North Korea

Korea Future is pleased to have authored a new report for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government agency. The report, which is titled Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and the Right to Freedom of Religion, Thought, and Conscience in North Korea, explores how ongoing religious freedom violations in North Korea are driven by highly organized efforts of the Workers’ Party of Korea to enforce an ideology known as Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. The report contributes to significant advances in understanding how and why this ideology is implemented across North Korea and presents implications for the deterrence of perpetrators and the pursuit of accountability and justice.

In 2021, Korea Future authored another report for USCIRF, titled Organized Persecution: Documenting Religious Freedom Violations in North Korea, which documented violations of ongoing, egregious, and systematic violations of religious freedom based on interviews with survivors and perpetrators.