Tag: human rights
Crushing dissent: N. Korea’s anti-reactionary thought law and its effect on...
Daily NK has released a comprehensive report examining how North Korea's "Anti-Reactionary Thought Law" is severely restricting citizens' basic rights and daily lives. The...
Between Moscow and Mar-a-Lago: N. Korea’s critical crossroads in 2025
After 37 years of studying North Korean affairs, I'm often asked how I continue to track current issues and where I get my information,...
Source: N. Korean official’s UN comments on executions were party-authorized
North Korea's acknowledgment of public executions at a U.N. human rights review in Geneva this November was carefully orchestrated. The admission came from Pak...
N. Korea’s failed whistleblower system: Informants left unprotected
North Korea's Public Reporting System Law encourages overseas workers to report their colleagues' illegal activities, but the system has proven ineffective due to inadequate...
Kim Jong Un orders review of government standards for executions
Kim Jong Un has issued orders to North Korea's security ministries to establish clearer criteria for both public and private executions. These directives were...
North Korea ships 150 workers through Hyesan to jobs in China
North Korea has dispatched more than 150 workers through Hyesan customs to various industries in China. The workers, who arrived in Jilin province last...
Small state, nuclear power: North Korea’s path through the unipolar era
The four-generation conflict between North Korea and the United States has entered a new phase as the post-Cold War unipolar era draws to a...
N. Korean human rights and the COI report: 10 years on,...
A decade after the landmark U.N. Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on North Korean human rights, questions linger about the progress made in addressing...
N. Korea’s political prison camps: Shrinking populations amid tightening control
The populations of North Korea's infamous political prison camps, long criticized as hotbeds of human rights violations, has decreased by about 9,000 inmates compared...
Thirty N. Korean defectors speak out against China’s UPR response
China has recently claimed that North Korean defectors are not refugees, while rejecting South Korea's recommendation that people fleeing North Korea and other countries...
