Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United ...

For the first time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting addressing the human rights ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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