In North Korea, by contrast, watching a gripping TV drama can cost you your life. Under the “Anti-Reactionary Thought Law” of ...

North Korean people in front of Chilgol protestant church in Pyongyang on April 20, 2008. Corbis via Getty Images. In October 2021, NGO Korea Future released a report detailing the religious ...

UNITED NATIONS — North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and people are becoming more desperate and reportedly starving in parts of the country as the economic situation worsens ...

Christians caught with a Bible in North Korea have faced death and had their families, ... The recent report reveals executions and imprisonment for life for people caught with religious materials.

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of ...

Melanie Kirkpatrick’s op-ed “To Disarm North Korea, Focus on Human Rights” (op-ed, March 6) boldly suggests that to achieve a strategic breakthrough with North Korea, we need to focus on the ...

Torture, forced abortions and insects for food: Life inside North Korean jails, says this NGO By Yoonjung Seo , Andrew Raine and Gawon Bae , CNN 12 minute read ...

North Korea once sentenced a toddler to life in a prison camp because the baby's family had been caught with a copy of the Bible, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.

North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens' human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea, said in a report on Thursday.

North Korea fascinates many people. For South Koreans, its threat is just part of life. By Tobi Loftus. Topic: World Politics. Sun 1 Sep Sunday 1 September Sun 1 Sep 2024 at 12:52am.

KENOSHA, Wisconsin -- The mother of a U.S. soldier held in captivity in North Korea says her life has transformed into a "big nightmare" because what happened to her son remains a mystery. Defense ...

In 2024 UN human rights chief Volker Turk described North Korea under Kim’s rule as “a stifling, claustrophobic environment, where life is a daily struggle devoid of hope.” ...