The former poet-laureate of North Korea has a message on human rights for Trump

A former senior North Korean official warned President Donald Trump that he could not focus solely on denuclearization but that he also had to deal with human rights violations. Kim Jong One's man there was every hope of achieving peace and stability.

Jang Jin Sung was awarded the poem by Kim's late father, Kim Jong Il. He describes his former role as the regime's propaganda leader as a "psychological warfare officer."

with NBC News this week after a report underlined the status of his country as the worst author of "modern slavery".

The North Korean government is known for its atrocities, which the United Nations and others have described as "And yet, at their historic summit last month, Trump repeatedly praised Kim as" tough " and made little mention of the disastrous record of his regime in terms of human rights.

A vague and highly criticized agreement that promised to work towards "the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

Jang, 45, said that it was a mistake.

"When people try to separate the nuclear problem from the human -rights, it's not really possible because these things both work toward the same cause." They both support a political system that gives priority to Kim in all its aspects, "he said about the summit

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For Jang, human rights abuses in North Korea should be viewed in the same way, a means of maintaining the population and preventing any challenge at the national level. "It's a system that needs bombs, it's a system that intrinsically and essentially commits crimes against humanity," he said. Unless you have a political transformation, you will not make any real progress on these issues.

But focus on denuclearization without addressing the harsh dictatorship of North Korea could have disastrous repercussions in the future, according to experts like Elliott Abrams, who was deputy adviser to the national security of President George W. Bush. [19659004] "As long as there is a rule of one brutal man, the only thing necessary to destroy any progress that has been made [in the nuclear talks] is a whim of this man," Abrams wrote on last month for the Council on Foreign He worked in North Korea posing as a South Korean poet and writing odes of glory to the Kims. They were later published in a North Korean newspaper, making people believe that they were the envy of their southern capitalist neighbors.

He defected in 2004 after reading South Korean books that he had access to because of his work. and realized the truth about his country. He is now a bestselling author living in South Korea.

He is also a panelist for the Global Slavery Index, which released a report Wednesday saying that North Korea was the worst country in the world for "modern slavery". It is estimated that 40 million people are held in modern slavery around the world, of which at least 2.6 million are in North Korea – one in ten.

Andrew Forrest, founder of the Walk Free Foundation, said that it was "a very conservative number" that included only people who met the strict definition of slavery.

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Although they do not meet these criteria, the rest of the population are by no means f. They live in a country that controls almost every aspect of public life.

Much of the international attention is focused on the most extreme crimes of North Korea: more than 80,000 people detained in labor camps where murders, rapes and torture is commonplace; public executions for insignificant crimes; and the death of the American student Otto Warmbier.

But Jang said that it was also important to emphasize the "reign by terror" to which almost the entire population, outside the elite, is subjected every day.

The entire population is not only in a physical form of dictatorship, it is also a form of emotional or psychological dictatorship, "he said.

Wednesday's report showed that children are forced to work hard.

Adults are forced to work what are called "battles" – shifts of 70 to 100 days in a row without a day off, he added. Refusal means a reduction in rations and most salaries are unpaid.

"It's the most oppressive regime in the world," said Forrest