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United Nations (UN) Urges Probes of Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)

A report recently released by Navi Pillay, the United Nation’s chief human rights official, claims more than 200,000 people are incarcerated in political prison camps (kwan-li-so) in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The kwan-li-so are places where torture, rape and slave labour are common. It is believed that the scale of the crimes committed in North Korea amount to crimes against humanity. Because of […]

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North Korea Optimistic About Improving Relations with the Republic of Korea and the United States After Comments by Newly Elected South Korean President Park Chung-hee

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea expressed optimism after comments from newly elected South Korean President Park Chung-hee indicated a willingness on the part of the Republic of Korea to engage in talks and closer diplomatic relations with its northern neighbor. After her election to the presidency, Park has announced she will pursue a more aggressive […]

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Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Tests Long-Range Ballistic Missile According to South Korea and Japan

The defense ministries of Japan and South Korea report that they have detected a long-range rocket launch out of North Korea, bringing to a close days of speculation as to when the North would fire off its latest controversial test rocket, likely ratcheting up tensions and pressure on concerned parties to reign in the North’s […]

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The Internet in the DPRK: How North Korea’s Intranet Reinforces National Isolation

Stories of repression in the DPRK are nothing new, with numerous accounts of prison work camps, political re-education, and the thorough repression of individualism at the altar of state indoctrination regularly pouring out of the Republic of Korea’s northern brother. That is why some may find it shocking to learn that North Korea has set […]

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Australia Shuts Its Doors to North Korean Refugees

Due to changing laws, North Korean refugees in Australia are being deported to South Korea. Because South Korea considers all of the citizens of North Korea as citizens of South Korea, Australia, too, accepts this position and will not be deporting the refugees who have settled in Australia back to the DPRK. Still, some North […]

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North Korea Takes Pride in Its Human Rights Record, Disregarding United Nations (UN) Reports of State-Sponsored Horror

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) rejected a United Nations (UN) monitor’s report about the daily horrors that face citizens in North Korea. The delegation from the DPRK asserted their confidence in the North Korean social system and dismissed the special rapporteur Marzuki Darusman’s claims of political prison camps and forced labor, among other […]

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North Korea Releases ‘Arirang,’ It’s Own Version of Apple’s Vaunted iPad

North Korean state media, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), reports that the nation’s Pyongyang Information Technology Bureau has developed the DPRK’s first tablet computer, the Arirang. Certainly the world has many questions about the device, among which might include: How does a nation prone to famine and trapped in the 1960s create a tablet computer? […]

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Documentary Video Inside North Korea – The World’s Most Secretive State

This documentary video takes the viewer inside of one of the world’s most repressive regimes. While internationally North Korea is known for bringing relations between it and the South to the brink, among human rights workers it is the most brutal regime on Earth. Individuality, freedom of expression, religion, or any basic human rights are […]

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Pak Jong Suk’s Unlikey Odyssey: One Defector’s Journey from North Korea to South Korea and Back Again

Rarely does a defector from the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea return to the North, but the case of Pak Jong Suk is a curious one: Having defected from the North in 2006, Pak has returned from South Korea to the DPRK a propaganda star for the regime. The 66-year old returnee is described […]

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North Korean Military Parade to Announce Kim Jong-un

The above video was taken during the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s largest military parade ever held in order to signal that Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, current leader Kim Jong-un, was to succeed his father as the head of history’s only communist dynasty.   [The Guardian]

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