Seoul, February 7 (IANS): The U.N. has published a report carrying testimonies from North Korean defectors about their home country's heightened surveillance of citizens for possession of outside ...

including a few cases of execution by firing squad, the report noted, quoting the interviewees. The OHCHR said its work appears to be known inside North Korea, citing sources informing that ...

The following is a summary of external news on North Korea this week. ------------ U.N. report accuses N. Korea of home searches, execution by firing squad for possessing outside info SEOUL -- A ...

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco.