 In addition to serving as a portal to the latest news related to North Korean human rights, the journal networks rescuers, refugees, defectors, government officials, intelligentsia, and the media to bring further momentum to the North Korean human rights movement.It has been a resource for academic journals and bestselling books like Natan Sharansky’s The Case for Democracy.The Journal is premised on the belief that the more people know about the human rights atrocities happening in North Korea, the more pressure the world will bring to bear on the Stalinist regime, resulting in less leeway for the regime to continue abusing the 21 million North Korean people with impunity.