North Koreans listen to propaganda all day—because tampering with the loudspeaker could get them sent to a prison mine. Johnson knew he had to visit North Korea to put flesh on the bones of his research.

Dec 23, 2023 · It is clear that North Korea is a society characterized by oppression, isolation, and human rights abuses, and it is likely to remain this way until the current regime is no longer in power.The international community must therefore continue to pressure the North Korean government to accept reforms and to uphold basic human rights.Only then can ...

North Korean Elite (New York: Crown, 2014; Broadway, 2015). Pyongyang Republic by Robert Collins presents a deep analysis of the system by which North Koreans are ruled and the conse-quences for human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Collins documents the ways that North Korea's

Apr 25, 2012 · In a uniquely North Korean bit of absurdity, the government most likely maintained its foreign-facing official website by telling subordinates in Japan or China what to put on it. It was a...

Jul 3, 2024 · Often the subject of lurid, outlandish and factually dubious reporting, North Korea is typically portrayed as a cult-like dystopia, its inhabitants rendered as a faceless and undifferentiated mass. With his new book, North Korea: The People’s Paradise, Tariq Zaidi t ranscends these cliches and instead offers a rich, vivid and humane portrait ...

Jan 14, 2020 · Eight years into the rule of Kim Jong Un, the third leader in seven decades of hereditary rule begun under his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, North Korea has now suffered under totalitarian rule for...

Sep 28, 2017 · As northeast Asia teeters on the brink of a conflict that could escalate beyond anyone’s control, it is more important than ever to be well-informed about North Korea, and move beyond the...

Authorities in North Korea routinely send perceived opponents of the government to secretive prison camps where they face torture, starvation rations, and forced labor. Fear of collective...

Jan 17, 2024 · Madeleine Gavin’s Beyond Utopia charts two attempts at defection from North Korea and the underground network that provides vital help.

The 2021 edition of the White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea (White Paper), an annual report based on interviews with recent escapees and published by the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), a ROK government-affiliated think tank, reported that testimonies recounted continued public and secret executions. Escapees declared ...