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UN Meeting Connects North Korea’s Abuses and Military Programs
This week, the United Nations General Assembly met for its first-ever public high-level session devoted to North Korea's ...
North Korean human rights a global issue, speakers tell U.N. General Assembly
Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United ...
Kim Jong Un Calls Failed Launch of Navy Destroyer a ‘Criminal Act’
North Korea attempted to launch a new 5,000-ton naval destroyer on Wednesday, but the ship suffered a “major accident,” ...
‘My friends were executed’: North Korean defectors tell UN of regime’s brutal reality
One escaped North Korea only to be sold to a Chinese man for less than US$300. Another was banished to the countryside aged 5 ...
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‘Silence is complicity,’ warns activist who fled DPR Korea
When human rights activist Eunju Kim was 11, her mother and older sister left, telling her they were going in search of food.
Right-wing S. Korean YouTuber misrepresents US general's interview as election endorsement
With two weeks left to South Korea's presidential election, social media users widely shared a video by a right-wing YouTuber ...
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North Korean envoy calls escapees ‘human scum’ at UN meet
Derogatory remarks were a response to testimonies shared at UNGA by two women escapees who now live in South Korea ...
North Korea invited Western influencers. Now it has closed its borders again. What happened?
International visitors have returned to the DPRK for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic resealed the North Korean ...
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North Korea's Naval Setback a Wake-Up Call for Military Engineering and Strategic Ambitions
Serious accident and criminal act caused by absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism.” North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong-un said as he watched the disastrous launching of the ...