Elizabeth Salmon, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, will make an official visit to South Korea in ...

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 May 21 (UPI) ...

A South Korean North Korean human rights coalition said Monday it has petitioned Ukrainian authorities to protect two ...

Kang Gyu-ri, a North Korean escapee, speaks during a high-level U.N. General Assembly meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 20 in this photo captured from U.N. Web TV. [YONHAP] North Korean ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Eunju Kim, who escaped starvation in North Korea in 1999, was sent back from China and fled a second time, told the United Nations on Tuesday that the country’s leader must be ...

North Korea’s human rights situation has deteriorated over the past decade, with capital punishment broadened and increasingly enforced for offenses such as distributing foreign media, according to a ...

A file picture of Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung, who is the clear frontrunner in the presidential race in South Korea. (Photo: AFP) South Koreans will go to the polls next Tuesday, June 3 ...

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Eunju Kim, who escaped starvation in North Korea in 1999, was sent back from China and fled a second time, told the United Nations on Tuesday that the country’s leader must be ...