Vice Unification Minister Kim Nam-jung on Thursday highlighted the need to improve the lives of North Koreans through ...

North Korea is carrying out arbitrary punishments, including executions, against citizens caught watching South Korean ...

In 2025, the North Korean government increased surveillance, information controls, and restrictions on market activity ...

Elizabeth Salmon, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in N. Korea, began a five-day visit to S. Korea, meeting vice minister-level officials ...

Executive Director’s Note: Robert Collins is a senior advisor for the Committee of Human Rights in North Korea. He has ...

A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North ...

In a January 26 ruling, a Japanese district court held the North Korean government liable for grave human rights violations against Koreans and Japanese citizens lured to North Korea through its ...

North Korea’s human rights situation has deteriorated over the past decade, with capital punishment broadened and increasingly enforced for offenses such as distributing foreign media, according to a ...

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