For the first time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting addressing the human rights ...

Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country ...

SEOUL, May 23 (UPI) -- North Korea began a full-scale investigation into an accident that damaged a new warship at its launch ...

May 21 (UPI) --Activists, officials and defectors highlighted North Korean human rights violations at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying ...

SEOUL – The United States imposed new sanctions on three top North Korean officials – including Kim Jong Un’s right-hand man – over the country’s continuing human rights abuses ...

Whoever wins the South Korean presidential polls has the responsibility to speak up about their violations in North Korea ...

The U.N. Security Council will hold a public meeting in mid-June on human rights in North Korea while South Korea holds the council’s rotating presidency. “Some countries have some ...

I write about international human rights and national security. October 18 th marked 20 years since the North Korean Human Rights Act (NKHRA) was signed into law. The NKHRA is landmark legislation ...

The most terrifying aspect of North Korea's power-based human rights violations is the deliberate manipulation of the collective cognitive framework of its citizens for malicious purposes.

Details of the case were released in the 2024 Report on North Korean Human Rights by South Korea’s unification ministry on Thursday, which included testimonies from 649 North Korean defectors.

More PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images Kim's views are consistent with research I have conducted since 2020 for Human Rights Watch. We documented North Korea's persistent drive to control its ...