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Jun 15, 2023 · Inside North Korea: “We are stuck, waiting to die”. For months, the BBC has been communicating in secret with three North Koreans living in the country. They expose, for the first time, the...
Jun 11, 2018 · What Daily Life In North Korea Looks Like. June 11, 20184:24 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. 4-Minute Listen. Playlist. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with North Korea expert Jean Lee...
Jul 11, 2023 · Little is known about the daily life of people living in North Korea, one of the world's most isolated nations. The country is home to more than 25 million people, who from a young age are...
Mar 22, 2024 · From the agencies. China. Asia Pacific. AFP photographer Pedro Pardo gained access to a remote stretch of frontier in China’s north-east Jilin province. Between rusting factories and peeling...
People living in North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, live rigid and controlled lives. With a lack of connection to the outside world, North Koreans maintain their...
- Freedom of Movement and Information
- Forced Labor
- Pretrial Detention, Due Process Violations, and Torture
- Marginalized Groups
- Covid-19
- Key International Actors
Moving from one province to another or abroad without prior approval remains illegal in North Korea. North Korea continued jamming Chinese mobile phone services at the border and arresting persons caught communicating with people outside the country, a violation of the right to information and free expression. Networks that facilitate North Koreans...
The North Korean government routinely and systematically requires forced, uncompensated labor from most of its population—including women and children through the Women’s Union or schools; workers at state-owned enterprises or deployed abroad; detainees in hard labor detention centers (rodong dallyeondae); and prisoners at ordinary prison camps (ky...
The North Korean government’s pretrial detention and criminal investigation system remained arbitrary, violent, cruel, and degrading. Ordinary citizens have no access to North Korea’s laws, which are vaguely worded and lack definitions. Law enforcement agencies and courts are controlled by the Workers’ Party of Korea, and connections and money are ...
The North Korean government uses songbun, a socio-economic political classification system created at the country’s founding that groups people into varying classes including “loyal,” “wavering,” or “hostile,” discriminating against lower classed persons in areas including employment, residence, and schooling. Pervasive corruption allows some maneu...
In 2020, the North Korean government imposed various restrictions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. While some measures that limited rights were justified by public health exigencies, others were not necessary or not proportionate and permitted grave abuses under the pretext of protecting against the spread of Covid-19. For instance, the govern...
North Korea has ratified five human rights treaties, but it has ignored its obligations under all of them. A 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea found that the government committed gross, systematic, and widespread rights abuses, including extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, an...
Apr 27, 2020 · 27 April 2020. EPA. For decades, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - more commonly known as North Korea - has been one of the world's most secretive countries. Its government doesn't...
