North Korea stated in a May 2016 report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors state compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, that it abolished child labor ...

FILE - North Korean farmers tend a field outside Pyongyang, June 14, 2012. A U.N. report released July 16, 2024, accuses the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of widespread forced labor in a ...

North Korean authorities sentenced the two 16-year-old girls to 12 years of hard labor after they were previously convicted of watching K-pop, which is music from South Korea.

North Korea confronts a modern ... when a mother raised a child, ... will fail to convince women to have more children and that shrinking labor force would further depress North Korea's economic ...

At a Security Council meeting, officials gave harrowing accounts of rights abuses in North Korea. But global divisions were clear: Russia denounced the discussion, and China questioned its ...

In North Korea, two teenage boys receive punishment for watching South Korean TVHandcuffed in front of hundreds of students and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.Back in Cuba they had a name for ...

According to South Korea's government statistics agency, North Korea's total fertility rate, or the average number of babies expected to be born to a woman over her lifetime, was at 1.79 in 2022 ...