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Oct 15, 2024 · North Korea has accused South Korea of flying drones into its capital, ratcheting up tensions that have been simmering for months.
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N Korea fires banned missile in longest flight yet. The test...
- Kim Yo-jong says North Korea open to ending war if ... - BBC
EXPLAINER: North Korea's missile and nuclear programme;...
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North Korea to cut off road and rail links to South Korea. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un threatens to destroy the South with nuclear weapons if provoked. A North Korean defector who struggled in ...
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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...
Oct 16, 2024 · N Korea fires banned missile in longest flight yet. The test shows that Pyongyang is building weapons that "fire farther and higher", Seoul says. Asia. 3 days ago.
Oct 17, 2024 · North Korea is a nuclear power with a complex relationship with China, and preventing both an interstate Korean war and a North Korean internal collapse are critical U.S. national security...
Jun 15, 2023 · The world’s most isolated country has become an information black hole. Under the tyrannical rule of Kim Jong Un, North Koreans are forbidden from making contact with the outside world. With the...
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Sep 24, 2021 · EXPLAINER: North Korea's missile and nuclear programme; WATCH: Why North Korea keeps launching missiles; REALITY CHECK: Why doesn't North Korea have enough food?
