Tag: human rights
North Korea shifts education costs onto the public with new funding...
North Korea has formalized a system requiring institutions, enterprises, and ordinary citizens to financially support state education through a newly obtained law, shifting the...
Pyongyang man sentenced to over 12 years for watching South Korean...
A Pyongyang man was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison at a public trial held in mid-March in the city's Songyo district...
Tofu dregs replace grain as North Korea’s rural food crisis worsens
North Korean households in rural areas of North Hamgyong province have lost access to grain entirely, forcing people to survive on biji (tofu dregs)...
Trapped in the net: North Korean workers in Chinese seafood factories
Daily NK has released a comprehensive report examining how North Korean workers dispatched to Chinese seafood processing factories are subjected to systematic forced labor,...
Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological...
North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers' Party of Korea...
S. Korea’s plan to scrap N. Korean human rights center risks...
A report recently emerged that the government is considering a plan to essentially scrap the establishment of the National Center for North Korean Human...
N. Korea claims near-total elimination of underground churches and prayer groups
The North Korean authorities have recently begun patting themselves on the back for bringing religion under control, claiming that "organized underground services and secret...
N. Korea’s criminal justice reform: Control under cover
North Korea recently scrapped its system of preliminary examinations—a legal procedure the country maintained for roughly 70 years since the regime's founding. This change...
Pyongyang enacts sweeping transportation controls that violate international human rights standards
Daily NK has reviewed the full text of North Korea's Railroad Passenger Transportation Act, which was enacted in May. The law prohibits North Koreans...
China labels North Korean defectors as security threats under spy law...
China recently issued internal guidelines classifying North Korean defectors living in the country as potential national security risks.
A source in China told Daily NK...
