Tag: prison camps
Rights groups urge Ukraine: Let N. Korean POWs seek S. Korean...
Human rights groups are urging Ukraine to allow captured North Korean soldiers to seek refuge in South Korea rather than face potential execution in...
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...
N. Korea executes nuclear power plant researchers over project failures
North Korean authorities have executed and imprisoned several key researchers involved in nuclear power plant construction, Daily NK has learned.
According to a Pyongyang source...
N. Korea orders police to intensify public surveillance under guise of...
North Korea's Ministry of Social Security has ordered local police boxes nationwide to intensify "mass educational activities," a move that signals tighter surveillance of...
N. Korea intensifies surveillance of ‘dangerous elements’ in border city
North Korean authorities have intensified surveillance of neighborhood watch units at the border with China, with particularly harsh monitoring of individuals designated as "dangerous...
N. Korean officials face public trial for embezzling from state tideland...
North Korean officials who embezzled funds from tideland reclamation projects were recently put on public trial, Daily NK has learned.
"Officials involved in tideland development...
Police raids target illegal alcohol production across North Korea
North Korea has launched a nationwide crackdown on illegal alcohol production, threatening the livelihoods of many who depend on bootlegging.
According to multiple sources inside...
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...
Father-son defection attempt ends in arrest at Yalu River
A father and son were caught by border guards trying to cross the Yalu River into China from Uiju county, North Pyongan province. The...
Chinese remittance broker faces espionage charges in North Korea
A Chinese remittance broker in North Hamgyong province has been arrested by state security agents on charges of espionage, in what some say is...
