 The Committee’s leadership has testified to Congress about North Korean human rights and China’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees.In April 2012, HRNK held its first major conference on North Korean human rights to launch its publication, "The Hidden Gulag, Second Edition" on North Korean political prison camps.HRNK was founded in 2001 by a group of foreign policy and human rights specialists to fill a gap in non-governmental expertise on North Korea.