Tag: 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...
Diplomacy over human rights: Where is the red line?
A former human rights lawyer as president, the former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights as foreign minister, and a long-time pro-democracy activist...
Kim Yo Jong angered by UN criticism of the North’s human...
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was broadly involved in a statement blaming South Korea for the recent...
Why North Korean human rights still matter
If you’ve ever read North Korean state media, listened to its diplomats, or been subject to its apologists’ rants on social media, you know...
Will Donald Trump ever do the right thing on North Korea,...
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...
Thae Yong Ho: N. Korea’s constitution must be reformed
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...
Is China’s policy toward female N. Korean defectors changing?
Daily NK learned recently that Chinese police investigated a group of female defectors from North Korea rather than deporting them back to North Korea...
Some Samjiyon evictees face the coming winter cold in tents
As construction teams begin to demolish houses near Samjiyon city to make way for new housing developments, some of the evictees are facing the...
4 killed by N. Korean border guards while crossing Yalu River
North Korean border guards fired on a group of five North Koreans fleeing over the Yalu River into China in early September, killing four,...
North Korea sentences female drug boss to life in prison
The female leader of a drug smuggling ring and four of her subordinates were recently sentenced to harsh prison time as part of the...
