World Report 2025: North Korea | Human Rights Watch
Under totalitarian leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea maintains fearful obedience through arbitrary punishments, torture, executions, unjust imprisonment, and forced labor. Sexual and domestic...
Hell on earth: The horrors of North Korean torture camps
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is said to preside over a brutal system of torture camps imprisoning as many as 120,000 citizens of his isolated regime. Beatings, rape, starvation and sick...
Inside North Korea: Life Under Brutal Regimes & Unimaginable
Jan 25, 2025 · In this eye-opening episode, we take a deep dive into the harsh realities of life in North Korea—where freedom is restricted, punishments are brutal, and every action is scrutinized by the...
North Korea’s Unrelenting Human Rights Crisis
Feb 17, 2025 · North Korea denies almost all reports of rights abuses and is unlikely to ever investigate or prosecute its own misconduct. The OHCHR recommends that the UN Security Council, however unlikely,...
North Korea’s Brutality Laid Bare | Human Rights Watch
Dec 11, 2017 · North Korea’s cruelty – described by the UN as, “unparalleled in the modern world,” – sees millions of its people suffer grave human rights violations at the hands of their own government,...
Report exposes brutal executions in North Korea for watching …
Dec 17, 2021 · Torture, brutal executions and corpse desecration have been documented in a report into capital punishment under Kim Jong-un’s rule. The investigation was conducted by a Seoul-based human rights organisation which has detailed a number of public executions in the closed-off nation of North Korea.
North Korea’s human rights: What's not being talked about - BBC
Feb 18, 2019 · North Korea's woeful human rights record is one topic that is yet to come up - and it's likely to remain that way. The UN says North Koreans live under "systematic, widespread and gross...
North Korea - United States Department of State
Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings by the government; forced disappearances; torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and punishment by government authorities; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, including in political prison camps; arbitrary arrests and detentions; p...
Another US funding cut threatens human rights in North Korea
Mar 4, 2025 · One major beneficiary of funds from the NED are groups documenting and helping to stop human rights abuses in North Korea. The funding halt threatens to damage further the lives of people living...
BBC News - UN's North Korea report: Main findings
Feb 17, 2014 · A United Nations panel has accused North Korea of crimes against humanity, including systematic extermination, torture, rape, forced abortions and starvation.