Human Rights in the World
NORTH KOREA: Diplomat defects to the South, shares news of political purge Ri Il-kyu, who fled to South Korea late last year, alleged that two North Korean officials who had been assigned to negotiate with the Trump administration had been punished. By Choe Sang-Hun...
Human Rights in the World
NORTH KOREA: UN report on institutionalised forced labour, grave violations of human rights Report UN/ Reliefweb (16.07.2024) – The use of forced labour by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) against its citizens has become deeply institutionalised...
Human Rights in the World
NORTH KOREA: Cracking down on wedding dresses, sunglasses and slang, a report reveals BBC (28.06.2024) – North Korea is carrying out a widespread crackdown on everything from wedding dresses to slang as it seeks to counter the South’s influence, a new...
Human Rights in the World
NORTH KOREA: Man executed for listening to K-pop, defectors report The 2024 report on North Korean human rights released by South Korea’s unification ministry details an ongoing crackdown on cultural imports By Raphael Rashid The Guardian (28.06.2024) – A...
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Rare footage obtained by BBC Korea shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas. By Sangmi Han, BBC Korean, Seoul BBC (18.01.2024) – The footage, which appears to have been filmed in 2022, shows two...