The Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed in a report today (November 1, 2018) that North Korean officials often commit sexual abuse against women with near total impunity, the BBC website reports.
HRW said such abuse is so common that it has become a part of ordinary life in North Korea.
The report -- based on interviews with 62 North Korean women who fled the country -- revealed a culture of open unaddressed abuse, particularly from men in positions of power, such as party officers, prison guards, police, and soldiers.
"They consider us [sex] toys. We are at the mercy of men," Oh Jung-hee, a former trader in her 40s told the report's authors.
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