"Kim Jong Un's demand for human rights improvement is seen as a confrontation between the regime's defenders"

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un considered the international community's demand for human rights improvement in North Korea a "confrontation" to protect the regime and delivered specific response guidelines to overseas missions through the Foreign Ministry.

Lee Il-kyu, a former North Korean diplomat who defected to Cuba last year, unveiled 12 documents from the North's Foreign Ministry at the "2024 International Dialogue on Human Rights in North Korea" event in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 28th local time.

The documents released were sent by the North Korean Foreign Ministry from January 2016 to September last year to overseas missions in charge of the United Nations, including New York and Geneva, Switzerland, and Chairman Kim gave direct diplomatic guidelines with great interest in the demand for improvement of North Korea's human rights, which is mainly raised in the West.

According to the guidelines issued on January 11, 2017, "the human rights battle is the first battlefield for the opposition to protect the party, ideology, and system," indicating that the international community's pressure to improve North Korea's human rights is recognized as a primary confrontation phase.

The document also included guidelines for social burial of North Korean defectors who have testified about the human rights abuses in North Korea and provoking developing countries under human rights pressure to unite.

The January 15, 2016, document issued guidelines to North Korean diplomats to publicize the human rights issues of the West, such as "the issue of Japanese sexual slavery" and "the issue of refugees in Europe."

There is also a guideline not to take the annual resolution on North Korean human rights adopted by the United Nations at the UN conference hall, which means that the so-called "no vote adoption" will protect the dignity of the Kim Jong-un regime and ease the burden on allies.

"North Korea is burdened with diplomats' defection," Lee said at the event, "because it is afraid of exposing the regime's vulnerability and the little strategy it has designed to cover up the human rights situation."