North Korean defectors urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major ...

A United Nations official has expressed concern about the human rights situation in North Korea, saying its people are living ''through one of the worst times." ...

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 abuses ...

Two North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) held in Ukraine have pleaded to live in South Korea, a human rights organisation said.

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, according to a ...

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 addressed ...

Daily NK has reviewed the full text of North Korea’s Railroad Passenger Transportation Act, which was enacted in May.

Two captured North Korean soldiers who were fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine have formally requested to be handed ...

The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea keeps alive the truth that the Korean people in the North are not ...

The deliberate denial of information to 26 million Koreans living under the Kim family regime is not simply censorship -- it ...

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 rights abuses ...