Tag: political prison camps
North Korean remittance brokers disguise themselves as traveling salespeople to evade...
Operators in border regions carry sweets and underwear to mask their use of Chinese mobile phones for money transfers, as state security intensifies surveillance...
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. Korean political prison population rises as cultural crackdowns intensify
The number of inmates in North Korea's political prison camps has increased slightly as authorities apply the "Reactionary Thought and Culture Rejection Law" and...
Kim Jong Un’s China visit: Fear of purges lurks behind diplomatic...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited China again after six years and eight months. This trip drew particular attention as his debut...
N. Korea executes 23 defense workers in brutal crackdown
North Korea's state security department has taken an ultra-hardline stance against "counterrevolutionary acts" at munitions factories in Jagang province earlier this year.
Families of security...
Four N. Koreans sentenced to political prison camps after failed sea...
Four North Koreans who tried unsuccessfully to defect by sea in late April have been sentenced to political prison camps.
"Four people who got caught...
Tragedy in Hoeryong: Mother left destitute after daughter sent to political...
A woman in her 50s from Hoeryong, North Hamgyong province, is traveling to various locations across North Korea where political prison camps are believed...
Behind the cold exile: How N. Korea punishes ‘hostile class’ citizens
Recent reports indicate that the North Korean Workers' Party continues its harsh discrimination against citizens who hold views different from the regime.
According to a...
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...
