News from outside disappears in North Korea

Despite setbacks in efforts to spread outside news in North Korea, Lee Young-hyeon, a defector-turned-lawyer in South Korea, ...

Five Plead Guilty In North Korea IT Hiring Scam

Five people — four Americans and one Ukrainian — have pleaded guilty to helping North Korean operatives secure remote IT jobs ...

Decades-long efforts to send uncensored foreign news into North Korea are facing setbacks

Lee's Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio (FNK) station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea's 26 ...
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 added to the list, including Takashi Osawa, who was 27 at the time of his ...
Council on Foreign Relations

How North Korea Has Bolstered Russia’s War in Ukraine

North Korean troops and weapons have played an unexpectedly crucial role in sustaining Russia’s grinding military campaign in ...

North Korea’s Population Crisis Warning Signs

The United Nations Population Division has estimated that about 12 percent of North Koreans are aged 65 or older. The U.N.
NBC New York

North Korea is executing people for sharing foreign films and TV, U.N. says

The North Korean government has intensified repression inside the isolated, nuclear-armed state, expanding electronic surveillance and publicly executing people for sharing foreign media, the United ...
Opinion
BizPac ReviewOpinion

NoKo defector’s warning on NYC election: ‘Young people really don’t know how tyranny comes to them’

North Korean defector Yeonmi Park experienced firsthand the horrors of life under a communist dictator, and she has made it a practice to warn Americans about the […] ...
Daily NK

North Korea bans foreign currency wages, mandates cash payments in revised labor law

North Korea revised the Labor Wages Act in May to make it illegal for workers to be paid in foreign currency. In addition, the new law deleted a section that authorized agencies, enterprises, ...
Human Rights Watch

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...