Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying Pyongyang's syste ...

Eunju Kim, who escaped starvation in North Korea in 1999, and Gyuri Kang, who fled the North during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country and urging the world body to hold North Korea’s leader accountable for gross ...

A human rights report by South Korea’s Unification Ministry revealed that North Korean authorities publicly executed a ...

Whoever wins the South Korean presidential polls has the responsibility to speak up about their violations in North Korea ...

On October 18, 2004, President George W. Bush signed into law the North Korean Human Rights Act. The president’s statement, issued on his signing of the law, said the legislation “provides us with ...

Derogatory remarks were a response to testimonies shared at UNGA by two women escapees who now live in South Korea ...

Eunju Kim and Gyuri Kang both gave evidence to the United Nations general assembly with horrific stories of deaths and ...