On May 28, 2019, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report titled, “The Price is Rights: The Violation of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” (DPRK). As noted in the press release, the report “highlights how the public distribution system in the DPRK has been broken for over two decades and how, as people seek to eke out a living in a legally precarious parallel economy, they are  exposed to arbitrary arrest, detention, and extortion.” The report was based on 214 accounts from escapees of North Korea from 2017–2018 and it details how human rights are constantly violated due to the government’s economic problems and widespread corruption, such that “people have been unable to survive through a State-led model of centralized economic planning and distribution, which includes State-assigned jobs and the dispensation of food, clothes and other rations.” The report also recommends that North Korea implement reforms regarding the criminal code and the judiciary to improve human rights and take steps to ensure that the right to an adequate standard of living is provided for the entire population.