North Korea's legislative response to COVID-19: a way forward or backward?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea adopted the Emergency Communicable Disease Control Act. The DPRK's legislative response is noteworthy in five dimensions: effectiveness of communicable disease control; predictability of the authority's response;...

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Published in:Journal of Asian public policy 2024-05, Vol.17 (2), p.290-310
Main Authors: Do, Kyungok, Rim, Yejoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
communicable disease control
COVID-19
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Discrimination
Disease control
Human rights
Infectious diseases
legislative response
North Korea
Pandemics
Prohibition
state of emergency
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Summary:During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea adopted the Emergency Communicable Disease Control Act. The DPRK's legislative response is noteworthy in five dimensions: effectiveness of communicable disease control; predictability of the authority's response; response to emerging non-traditional security challenges; development of legal techniques; and the role of law in the society. Several provisions in the Act however prompt questions about its compliance with international human rights norms, concerning the threshold for declaring a state of emergency, the proportionality of measures, and the prohibition of discrimination. The article explores whether this legislative response leads forward or backward for the DPRK.
ISSN:1751-6234
1751-6242
DOI:10.1080/17516234.2022.2079806