North Korea’s government under Kim Jong Un has effectively sealed its northern border with China, worsening an already grave humanitarian and human rights situation in the country.

China has forcibly returned as many as 600 North Korean refugees back into the hands of the repressive government they had successfully fled, human rights groups say.. Behind the veil of the ...

False eyelashes – known colloquially as “falsies” – and wigs make up 60% of North Korea’s declared exports to China in 2023, bringing in $167 million worth of product.

China usually sends defectors back to North Korea, but Pyongyang wouldn't let them in during the pandemic. That may soon change, and has led to concern among human rights advocates.

The issue of human rights in North Korea will stay on the U.N. Security Council agenda at the request of the United States and Albania after they submitted a note on Tuesday with the support of ...

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of North Korean women have been forced into marriages, sold into sex slavery, or sent to work in detention camps after escaping their despotic country and finding themselves ...

North Korea denounced a planned open Security Council meeting on their human rights record, labeling it as "despicable" and accusing the U.S. of pursuing its own geopolitical agenda.

2024 International Dialogue on North Korean Human Rights. In July 2024, CSIS, the Ministry of Unification of the Republic of Korea, National Endowment for Democracy, and Human Asia co-hosted the 2024 ...

The countries called on all 193 U.N. member nations to raise awareness of the links between the human rights situation in North Korea and international peace and security, “and to hold the DPRK ...

Diamond said that having a more porous border between China and North Korea would enable a ... to the lack of transparent data about human rights in North Korea, a country which has ...