Kim Jong Un calls North Korean women ‘physically weak’ with ‘plain faces’ in bizarre IWD address - According to human rights groups, North Korean women and girls undergo ‘intense and pervasive human r

For most of the world, North Korea remains a sealed stage.Apart from routine missile launches, grand military parades and the carefully filtered images released by state media, the inner workings of Pyongyang’s ruling elite remain deeply opaque.

The nuclear-armed North, which is accused of widespread rights abuses by the United Nations and other critics, is a deeply hierarchical and patriarchal society where traditional values of deference to authority still hold sway. US-based Human Rights Watch ...

The United Nations designated March 8 as International Women's Day in 1977, but where do equality, human rights and opportunities for women come from?