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North Korea has a codified civil law system, which was inherited from colonial Japan and is similar to South Korea's system. As of December 2015, there were 236 laws and regulations, about half of which relate to economic management.
Jun 17, 2020 · North Korea has been ruled by one of the world’s longest-running dynastic dictatorships. Three generations of the Kim family have ruled with absolute authority, using heavy repression and a...
Human rights in North Korea. Censorship. Media. Corruption. Freedom of religion. Disability. Prisons. Kwanliso (concentration camps) Prostitution. Kippumjo (Pleasure Squad) Songbun (ascribed social status) Slavery ( Human trafficking) Executions. Racism. Human experimentation. Persecution of Christians. Political prisons (Kwanliso) Kaechon (No. 14)
On December 9, 2021, Daily NK reported that DPRK authorities, concerned regarding potential defections by North Korean workers forced to extend their sojourns abroad due to North Korea’s border closures, were “exerting increasingly cruel surveillance and controls” over these workers. On December 4, authorities reportedly issued an order ...
English. 简体中文. 繁體中文. 한국어. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) remains one of the most repressive countries in the world. A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry...
North Korean law states that leaving the country without permission is a crime of "treachery against the nation," punishable by death. The 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights in...
Nov 25, 2021 · Published daily by the Lowy Institute. North Korea: Law, but not as we know it. Martin Weiser. Authoritarian leaders do not allow the final supremacy of. courts but even a patina of legal function helps cement rule. Rulers reign supreme, in the “interests of the people” (Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images) Published 25 Nov 2021. North Korea.
