Human Rights

In the case of Mr. Jang [Jin-sung], the reality is he defected in 2004, 10 years ago, and it is nearly impossible for anyone having left a country [like North Korea] that has a news block-out to be able to have consistent and accurate and clear information for over a 10-year period of time. Defectors and exiles are also known generally in the scholarship to be colored by their experiences of the past. So they tend to read and interpret events in current times through the lens of the past and their own grievances.