{"id":1328598,"date":"2025-12-04T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-forcibly-transfers-ukrainian-children-to-north-korea-for-re-education\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:45:15","slug":"russia-forcibly-transfers-ukrainian-children-to-north-korea-for-re-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-forcibly-transfers-ukrainian-children-to-north-korea-for-re-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia forcibly transfers Ukrainian children to North Korea for \u201cre-education\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian occupation forces are illegally transferring Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories not only to Russia and Belarus, but also to North Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported<\/a> by international law expert Kateryna Rashevska.<\/p>\n

According to her, at a hearing in the US Senate on December 3, Rashevska stated that the Regional Center for Human Rights had documented 165 “re-education” camps where Ukrainian minors are subjected to forced Russification and militarization.<\/p>\n

She emphasized that the geography of such displacements has expanded significantly. Now such institutions operate not only in the occupied territories and in the Russian Federation and Belarus, but also in the DPRK. During her speech, Rashevska showed photos of children who ended up in North Korea, including 12-year-old Mykhailo from the Donetsk region and 16-year-old Lisa from Simferopol.<\/p>\n

According to human rights activists, both children were sent to the Songdowon camp, located about 9,000 kilometers from their home, where they were forced to learn military practices and introduced to veterans who participated in the attack on the American ship Pueblo in 1968.<\/p>\n

Rashevska recalled that Russia officially calls such actions “evacuations,” although international humanitarian law provides for strict restrictions and obligations that the aggressor does not adhere to. In particular, the occupier is obliged to ensure family reunification and provide lists of children to the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n

The lawyer stressed that any movement of children should be temporary and under constant security control, and that their return to their families should take place immediately after the threat has passed. However, Russia has failed to meet any of these requirements.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, Russia has begun using children abducted from the occupied territories of Ukraine in hostilities against Ukraine itself.<\/a> Some of them are mobilized into the army after reaching adulthood.<\/p>\n

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Russian occupation forces are illegally transferring Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories not only to Russia and Belarus, but also to North Korea. This was reported by international law expert Kateryna Rashevska. According to her, at a hearing in the US Senate on December 3, Rashevska stated that the Regional Center for Human Rights had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1328593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1328598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}