Tag: human rights

Politicians so rarely do the right thing that to question their motives when they do seems defeatist. So, whatever his rationale, I had some tentative...

On Dec. 27, North Korea’s Constitution Day, the Workers’ Party of Korea’s mouthpiece, Rodong Sinmun, published an editorial on its front page calling for...

Daily NK learned recently that Chinese police investigated a group of female defectors from North Korea rather than deporting them back to North Korea...

As construction teams begin to demolish houses near Samjiyon city to make way for new housing developments, some of the evictees are facing the...

North Korean border guards fired on a group of five North Koreans fleeing over the Yalu River into China in early September, killing four,...

The female leader of a drug smuggling ring and four of her subordinates were recently sentenced to harsh prison time as part of the...

In 2019, North Korea released a collection of short stories called “Blessed Future.” The book features 17 short stories, all of which praise Kim...

A family in Chongjin... There was a family living in the North Korean city of Chongjin in North Hamgyong Province. Though the father was a...

Human trafficking of North Korean defector women has been rising recently, with victims being sold to businesses running room salons, video chat websites and...

A large glass panel fell on three workers as they were loading it onto a railway car in Nampo earlier this month, killing two...