South Korea is planning to change the term “defectors” to describe North Koreans who flee the country to resettle in the South, as the word carries “negative connotation”. South Korea’s Ministry of ...

The elderly leader of the international Unification Church became the latest high-profile figure in South Korea to face an investigation in connection with criminal probes ...

As a military propagandist, he fled the North by jumping off a train. In the South, he broadcast forbidden outside news to ...

Technology has allowed North Korea to increase control of its citizens over the last decade with some being executed for ...

The human rights situation in North Korea has worsened, with people even being executed for distributing foreign movies and ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) welcome the ...

As the Human Rights Council prepares to look into the situation in North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)) ...

The death penalty in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is “more widely allowed by law and implemented in ...

Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa Airport offers one such moment. It is a long, steep escalator that connects the terminal level to ...

Rogue despot Kim Jong-Un has stepped up executions of his population for crimes such as watching foreign TV or films and even ...

The human rights situation in North Korea has worsened, with people even being executed for distributing foreign movies and shows such as Korean dramas, according to a new UN report.

In North Korea, by contrast, watching a gripping TV drama can cost you your life. Under the “Anti-Reactionary Thought Law" of 2020, no North Korean may consume, possess or distribute the “rotten ...