Yahoo

Rights abuses continue in North Korea a decade after probe, says UN investigator

SEOUL (Reuters) -A decade after a landmark U.N. report concluded North Korea committed crimes against humanity, a U.N. official investigating rights in the isolated state told Reuters many ...
The Japan Times

U.N. adds 12 more Japanese people to North Korea abduction list

Earlier this month, the working group told the Tokyo-based commission that the 12 people not officially recognized would be ...

Seoul’s backing of UN resolution on North Korea’s rights abuses tests limits of dialogue push

Lee Jae-myung’s liberal government defies expectations of a retreat, in a move likely to trigger an angry reaction from ...
CounterPunch

North Korea’s Window on the World is Closing

Security experts, United Nations officials, and congressional leaders have for years insisted that in dealing with North Korea, its government’s systemic human rights abuses need to be ...
Jurist

UN reports North Korea human rights worsened over past decade

North Korea’s human rights situation has deteriorated over the past decade, with capital punishment broadened and increasingly enforced for offenses such as distributing foreign media, ...
The Atlantic

UN: North Korea's Human Rights Abuses Have 'No Parallel'

The United Nations wants to remind everyone that while the world was busy worrying about North Korea's terrible nuclear missiles they were ignoring North Korea's even more terrible human ...
Yonhap News Agency on MSN

U.N. committee adopts resolution on N. Korean human rights backed by S. Korea, U.S.

A U.N. committee has adopted by consensus a resolution condemning widespread human rights violations in North Korea, the ...
Opinion

Regime fears the truth: how HRNK gives world Its most powerful weapon against North Korea

The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea has become one of the most credible institutions documenting the human rights situation there.
The DiplomatOpinion

North Korea’s Execution State: When Law Becomes a Tool of Terror

This stark contrast symbolically demonstrates that the death penalty in North Korea continues to function as a political tool ...