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North Korea Defends Rights Record at UN Briefing 
Date : October 10, 2014
North Korea is defending its human rights record, even while acknowledging it runs labor camps that have been slammed by rights groups as inhumane.The comments came Tuesd…
Top Security Official Caught in 'Espionage Case' 
Date : October 5, 2014
A high-level official at a provincial State Security Department [SSD] unit was caught aiding a military supplies factory worker in defecting, an incident Pyongyang will t…
U.S. envoy says North Korea rejects talks on prisoners 
Date : September 30, 2014
North Korea has rejected U.S. efforts to discuss the detention of three Americans, a U.S. diplomat said on Monday, adding the secretive state was missing a chance to buil…
Kerry Slams N. Korea Human Rights Abuses 
Date : September 25, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has publicly slammed North Korea's human rights record and called on the reclusive state to close its labor camps.At a ministers' meeti…
N. Korean defector named winner of human rights award 
Date : September 22, 2014
Shin Dong-hyuk, a North Korean defector born in a prison camp, has been selected as a winner of the Human Rights Watch's annual award for his efforts to promote the aware…
Seoul still dodging the North human rights issue 
Date : September 16, 2014
As the international community tries to come down on Pyongyang for suppressing the rights of its people, South Korea’s efforts are being criticized for being almost none…
NK, Reports of Abuse Are Produced by Political 'Racket' 
Date : September 14, 2014
North Korea, a country widely condemned for egregious rights violations, issued its own report on Saturday on the state of human rights in the country, disputing outside …
North Korea Sentences American to 6 Years of Hard Labor 
Date : September 14, 2014
The Supreme Court in North Korea on Sunday sentenced one of the three Americans known to be held in the country to six years of hard labor for committing “hostile acts”…
US, SK working to set up high-level meeting on NK human rights 
Date : September 14, 2014
The United States and South Korea are working with the United Nations to set up a a meeting of foreign ministers attending the U.N. General Assembly in an effort to rally…
New UN Rights Chief Urges N. Korean Accountability 
Date : September 10, 2014
The United Nations’ new High Commissioner for Human Rights has spoken on the situation in North Korea for the first time since taking office late last month.Prince Zeid …
Task Force Forms to Find Defector Group 
Date : September 7, 2014
The North Korean authorities have launched a task force to track down any residents who abetted the "three-family defection" last month. A group of 16 North Koreans defec…
Mountain Guard Post Threatens Mobile Usage 
Date : September 2, 2014
Daily NK has learned that the North Korean authorities are constructing a new guard post in a high mountainous area to assist in the detection of Chinese-manufactured mob…
Americans detained in North Korea speak to CNN, ask for U.S. help 
Date : September 1, 2014
Three Americans detained in North Korea spoke out about their conditions and pleaded for U.S. help in interviews with CNN.Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edw…
NK: Ferguson Shooting Proves US Is "Graveyard of Human Rights" 
Date : August 28, 2014
North Korea's government said Wednesday that the police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, is evidence that the United States is a "graveyard…
NK Authorities Slash China Visits 
Date : August 27, 2014
The number of North Korean residents permitted to visit relatives in China has decreased significantly from last year during the same period.  On August 22, a s…
 
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