Kim's views are consistent with research I have conducted since 2020 for Human Rights Watch. We documented North Korea's persistent drive to control its population through fear. Its overbroad ...

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 ...

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 ...

I write about international human rights and national security. October 18 th marked 20 years since the North Korean Human Rights Act (NKHRA) was signed into law. The NKHRA is landmark legislation ...

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

The realities The time has come to disrupt traditional North Korean policy and refocus efforts on freeing the Korean people through a comprehensive strategy centered on human rights, information ...