Congress should renew the North Korean Human Rights Act, but also urgently exert pressure on the State Department to preserve ...

At a crucial time in North Korea’s political climate and humanitarian crisis, Jung-Hoon Lee, the South Korean Ambassador for North Korean Human Rights, and Yosep Paek, North Korean refugee ...

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 ...

A decade after a landmark UN report concluded North Korea committed crimes against humanity, a UN official investigating rights in the isolated state told Reuters many abuses continue, exacerbated ...

Salmón said North Korea’s closure of its borders worsened an already dire human rights situation, with new laws enacted since 2020 and stricter punishments, including the death penalty and ...

Choi Min Kyung says she suffered physical and sexual abuse in North Korean detention after being repatriated from China ...

North Korea has ignored every UN mechanism, resolution, and report on its human rights violations and its threats to international peace and security. Today, with the Security Council deadlocked ...

North Korea's embassy in London did not answer phone calls seeking comment. The government has in the past denied abuses and accused the U.N. and foreign countries of trying to use human rights as ...

Two women who fled North Korea have been ... of people still living in the country and urging the world body to hold North Korea’s leader accountable for gross human rights violations. ...

North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Kim Song called the allegations that his country violates human rights “a burlesque of intrigue and fabrication" and insisted that tens of millions of North ...