Mikyoung Kim is associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Japan. She was a Fulbright visiting professor at Portland State University, OR, and served with the U.S. State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea, as a public diplomacy specialist. She has published many articles on memory, human rights, and gender in Northeast Asia. Kim is coeditor of Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory and North Korean Review.

• 1. Introduction: North Korean Human Rights2. The Refugees3. Political Construction of Human Rights in China4. Security Construction of Human Rights in Japan5. Social Construction of Human Rights in South Korea6. Moral Construction of Human Rights in the United States7. North Korea in the East Asian Community8. Conclusion: Reality and TheoriesNotesBibliographyIndex

Mikyoung Kim is associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Japan. She was a Fulbright visiting professor at Portland State University, OR, and served with the U.S. State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea, as a public diplomacy specialist. She has published many articles on memory, human rights, and gender in Northeast Asia. Kim is coeditor of Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory and North Korean Review.

• 1. Introduction: North Korean Human Rights2. The Refugees3. Political Construction of Human Rights in China4. Security Construction of Human Rights in Japan5. Social Construction of Human Rights in South Korea6. Moral Construction of Human Rights in the United States7. North Korea in the East Asian Community8. Conclusion: Reality and TheoriesNotesBibliographyIndex

Mikyoung Kim is associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Japan. She was a Fulbright visiting professor at Portland State University, OR, and served with the U.S. State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea, as a public diplomacy specialist. She has published many articles on memory, human rights, and gender in Northeast Asia. Kim is coeditor of Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory and North Korean Review.

• 1. Introduction: North Korean Human Rights2. The Refugees3. Political Construction of Human Rights in China4. Security Construction of Human Rights in Japan5. Social Construction of Human Rights in South Korea6. Moral Construction of Human Rights in the United States7. North Korea in the East Asian Community8. Conclusion: Reality and TheoriesNotesBibliographyIndex