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.

About 60 North Koreans in China were forcibly returned to North Korea in April, putting them at high risk of arbitrary detention, torture or degrading treatment, sexual violence, forced labor, and ...

The U.S. has imposed new financial sanctions and other restrictions on several people and entities across China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh in response to government surveillance and ...

China is using “cultural development” to shape “an ideologically and psychologically friendly environment in North Korea.” ...

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 ...

US envoys endured a lashing over issues of domestic equality and fairness from the United Nations Human Rights Council — getting scolded by the likes of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and North ...

In order for the United States and South Korea to strengthen their human rights-centered approach toward North Korea, key internal and external obstacles should be addressed.

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 ...

ABC News traveled along the 880-mile border between China and North Korea. — -- It was almost 65 years ago when North Korea and the United States agreed to a cease-fire. The guns stopped ...

SEOUL, South Korea — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday criticized North Korea’s human rights record and reiterated a vow to strip the country of its nuclear program, a day after Pyongyang ...

North Korean escapee Kim Eun-joo spoke at a high-level U.N. General Assembly meeting on North Korean human rights Tuesday, warning that "silence is complicity." Screenshot/UN Web TV ...

In seven other countries, people have a more positive opinion of China than the U.S. These include the United States’ ...