North Korean defectors describe a regime of censorship, executions, and starvation, revealing the deadly consequences of cultural defiance and pandemic-era hardship.
Captured North Korean soldiers in Ukraine present diplomatic and legal dilemmas, as Seoul seeks asylum arrangements and Pyongyang demands repatriation.
At the UN General Assembly’s first high-level session on North Korea, defectors gave harrowing testimony of life under the regime, as diplomats and rights experts pushed for global accountability.
Yang Chang-soo, a North Korean defector repatriated from Japan in 1960, shares his harrowing account of 60 years under the regime and his fight for Korean unification.
North Korean workers sent to Chinese distant-water fishing vessels as part of the regime’s foreign currency-earning scheme are reportedly subjected to harsh, exploitative conditions...
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released a report detailing human rights violations in North Korea, urging...
North Korea has reportedly intensified punishments for divorce and abortion, according to testimonies from recent defectors.
The Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) published its...
