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in dealing with Pyongyang, overlooking the main complaint
of detractors; namely, that President Trump provided Kim
Jong-Un, who all our authors agree is a brutal dictator, with
international legitimacy with little to show for it in terms of
denuclearization. Nonetheless, Tan provides some noteworthy
suggestions as to the path forward in dealing with Pyongyang,
while providing some insights into the how and why of North
Korean policymaking.

Fumiaki Yamada, head of the Tokyo-based Society to Help
Returnees to North Korea, then looks at the Humanitarian
Damage Caused by Chinese Deportation of North Korean
Defectors (Chapter Eight). He examines the plight of Korean
residents of Japan and their descendants who were enticed
to return to a North Korean “workers paradise” and who,
once disillusioned, have tried returning to Japan. Many
end up in China, where the Chinese government uniformly
regards them as smugglers, detains them, and deports them
back to North Korea, where they are treated as criminals
and persecuted in ways that would not be tolerated in a
modern society. His article documents and calls attention
to the human rights crimes of the Xi Jinping administration
which should be harshly criticized and sanctioned by the
international community, and especially by Japan and South
Korea.

Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director of the Committee for
Human Rights in North Korea (Chapter Nine) wraps up
the human rights discussion by Addressing the North Korean
Conundrum: The Nexus of Human Rights, Human Security,
and Political-Military Security. He calls for a coordinated

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