North Flunks Human Rights Test


US-based international human rights watchdog ¡®Freedom House¡¯ has singled out North Korea as the worst repressor of political and civil rights in its annual index of human rights conditions worldwide. Releasing its ¡®Freedom in the World 2013¡¯ ind.. [2013-01-18 04:49]
Hackers Target Transition Team
It is believed that hackers associated with North Korea have attempted to hack into computer servers belonging to President-elect Park Geun Hye¡¯s presidential transition team. Lee Won Ki, a spokesperson for the administrative department of the transition team, tol.. [2013-01-18 04:38]
South Fingers Pyongyang for Joongang Ilbo Strike
South Korea¡¯s Cyber Terror Response Center (CTRC) has confirmed its belief that an incident in which hackers attacked the website of the conservative daily Joongang Ilbo on June 8th, 2012 was deliberately undertaken by persons allied with North Korea. CTRC conclude.. [2013-01-16 21:23]
Expectations Dashed as Pillay Backs Inquiry Call
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has urged the international community to focus more of its energies on North Korea and lent her support to calls for an ¡°in-depth inquiry¡± into the crimes committed by Pyongyang.¡°We have only had glimpses of this.. [2013-01-15 21:40]
Obama Signs NK Child Protection Bill into Law
President Barack Obama has signed the controversial ¡°North Korean Child Welfare Act of 2012¡± into law.Sources say that President Obama signed the legislation on the 14th, thus legalizing certain provisions for North Korean children residing in third countries, mos.. [2013-01-15 20:46]
Park Geun Hye Out on Diplomatic Trail
President-elect Park Geun Hye met with the French and British ambassadors in Seoul on the 14th, taking the opportunity to request closer cooperation to try and bring about change in North Korea. Speaking with Jerome Paskie, the French ambassador, Park said, ¡°If we.. [2013-01-14 20:09]
North 1st for Religious Repression for 11th Year
A new report has concluded once again that North Korea is among the most repressive countries on earth in terms of religious freedom, on this occasion in the context of its treatment of Christians.The international Christian mission organization ¡®Open Doors¡¯ unvei.. [2013-01-09 20:31]
Richardson Pushes NK on Phone and Internet
Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico governor who is now in North Korea alongside Google¡¯s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, and Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, revealed in an interview today that his delegation has been pressing the North Korean autho.. [2013-01-09 20:14]
Flash Holiday in Kaesong Threatening Relations
Fresh controversy is developing over an incident in which North Korean employees working in the Kaesong Industrial Complex were suddenly handed additional vacation days not mentioned in official documentation.According to the Ministry of Unification on the 3rd,.. [2013-01-03 20:25]
Kim: NK Just Needs to Say the Word
All that stands between North Korea and a third nuclear test is the order to conduct it, according to South Korean Minister of National Defense Kim Kwan Jin.Kim, who was speaking with reporters at the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul on the 2nd, explained, ¡°Th.. [2013-01-03 08:45]
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