Tag: human rights
Ten questions on North Korea with Daily NK President Lee Kwang...
This year has seen a wide range of developments in North Korean affairs. From a major shift in North Korea's unification policy to a...
“Citizens with North Korean backgrounds”? What gives?
On Feb. 21, Korea's Presidential Committee for National Cohesion established a special commission on "trends among citizens with a North Korean background" to develop...
New survey of female N. Korean defectors in China reveals their...
Daily NK recently conducted a survey of 40 North Korean defectors in China that revealed their greatest hopes for 2024.
From Jan. 2 to Jan....
New report expresses concern about continued sexual violence against North Korean...
North Korean women continue to face sexual violence, including sexual harassment, molestation, and rape, but penalties for sexual offenses have decreased under Kim Jong...
Lifting the veil on how deaths are handled in N. Korea’s...
The corpses of political prison camp inmates are mutilated, cremated and buried in mass graves, Daily NK has learned. According to a source, the...
Pence Cartoon: “Feeding Frenzy”
Views expressed in this cartoon do not necessarily reflect those of Daily NK.
Global Slavery Index 2023: N. Korea has the globe’s highest prevalence...
North Korea has the highest prevalence of modern slavery in the world, according to the Global Slavery Index 2023 (GSI), compiled by the Australian...
Human Rights Watch publishes analysis on N. Korea’s border blockade
Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international NGO advocating for human rights, has published the results of its initial analysis of satellite images of the...
An interview with S. Korea’s new ambassador-at-large on N. Korean human...
The Yoon Suk-yeol administration recently appointed Lee Shin-hwa, a political science professor at Korea University, as South Korea’s ambassador-at-large on North Korean human rights...
For trafficked North Korean women, the road to justice remains long
“I feel honoured to have met so many extraordinary people across East Asia and around the world,” Sylvia Yu Friedman writes near the end...
