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North Korea criticizes United Nations human rights investigation

"Faked material . . . invented by hostile forces, defectors and other rabbles" was how North Korea described the latest U.N. investigation into its human rights violations and abuses.

North Korean Rights Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity - Bloomberg

Human-rights abuses by North Korea may constitute crimes against humanity, said Marzuki Darusman, the United Nations investigator who uncovered violations in the totalitarian state ranging from torture to arbitrary detention.

North Korea slams U.N. "plot" to investigate its human rights record - Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea condemned a threatened U.N. investigation into its alleged human rights abuses on Monday and denounced a U.N. report as "faked material ... invented by the hostile forces, defectors and...

Japan, U.S. seek U.N. inquiry into North Korea abuses - World news - Asia-Pacific - North Korea | NBC News

GENEVA (Reuters) - Japan and the United States called on Tuesday for the main U.N. human rights forum to launch an inquiry into allegations of violations including the torture and execution of political prisoners in North Korea.

Seoul supports UN probe of North Korean human rights abuses

Tuesday 5 March 2013 14.03 GMT Seoul supports UN probe of North Korean human rights abuses South Korea's new president reverses pledges of softer lin

How unpaid North Korean labour helped Russia welcome the world - The Globe and Mail

North Koreans labour in Russia as their leader collects the wages; up to 20,000 working in Russian Far East, including at least 3,000 in Vladivostok

North Korea makes Paralympics debut. Does it signal a shift? - CSMonitor.com

North Korea is participating for the first time in the Paralympic Games, a possible shift for a county were disabled people have faced enforced isolation and abuse.

Young adult rides 11,000 kilometres for North Korea - News - The Prince Albert Daily Herald

At the tail end of an 11,000-kilometre bicycle ride journey across North America, twice, Levi Ammundsen was in Prince Albert last week to replenish his

North Korea - the totalitarian state accused of putting disabled people in labour camps - makes Paralympic debut - Paralympics - Olympics - The Independent

He may be his country's only Paralympian and he may have come dead last in his event but Rim Ju-Song is still a hero. Today he became the first athlete to compete in the Paralympics on behalf of North Korea – the insular totalitarian state that...

ISN Blog » Human Rights of North Korean Defectors in Dire Straits

On August 3rd, South Korean human rights activist Kim Young-hwan and three colleagues held a press conference accusing Chinese authorities of detainment and torture due to their work with North Korean refugees. China has denied the allegations.

North Koreans flee in search of freedom | Asia | DW.DE | 04.09.2012

Many North Koreans swim across the Tumen River into China. These people then travel in secret, avoiding authorities, before they reach South East Asia. From there they go to South Korea to seek asylum.

'The North Korea of Africa': Where you need a permit to have dinner with friends - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Limitations on freedom of movement are just the tip of the iceberg in Eritrea - one the harshest dictatorships in the world.

Graves of thousands of Japanese in North Korea still unresolved issue - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

Ri Yong Ho, a farmer who lives on the outskirts of Pyongyang, was digging up his backyard to create storage space for kimchi pickled vegetables when he came across a grisly discovery: human bones.

UN called to investigate North Korea human rights abuses by 40 human rights groups

Human rights organisations are campaigning for the United Nations to launch an investigation into crimes against humanity in North Korea.

Kim Jong-Il's Human Rights Atrocities - NYTimes.com

Rarely do the North Korean gulags enter the consciences of international policymakers. That must change.

Benedict Rogers: Calling for Action on North Korean Crimes - WSJ.com

A new international initiative will create one of the broadest human rights movements ever, Benedict Rogers writes in an oped for The Wall Street Journal.

Dozens of international human rights groups will gather in Tokyo on Wednesday to urge the North Korean regime to halt its inhumane activities and release a South Korean woman believed to be held captive at a prison camp, an activist group here said.

Asia Times Online :: COMMENT: North Korea and the Genocide Convention

While it is certain that North Korea has committed a political and ideological genocide which has claimed millions of innocent lives, it is often overlooked that the North Korean regime has also in every aspect violated the United Nations Genocide...

EU urged to continue 'restrictive' sanctions against North Korea: theparliament.com

A human rights expert has called on the EU to continue strictly implementing the UN sanctions and its own restrictive measures against North Korea.

North Korea: Inside a Secret State - Photo Gallery - LIFE

More than six decades after its post-World War II creation, North Korea endures as a true rarity in the digital age: a land largely unrecorded, even while its influence -- on the global stage and the world's imagination -- intensifies. The...

Starving North Koreans forced to survive on diet of grass and tree bark | Amnesty International

Crippling food shortages exacerbated by government policies in North Korea have caused widespread illness as thousands are forced to survive on so-called "wild foods" such as grass and tree bark.

A North Korean anniversary and debut - The Big Picture - Boston.com

North Korea is in the midst of a series of large-scale events designed to both commemorate the 65th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers' Party, and to introduce heir apparent Kim Jong Un to the North Korean people and the world.

Defectors tell of fear, torture in homeland

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The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - N.Korea Rights Conference Focuses on Plight of Women

The 10th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees in Toronto, Canada, last weekend condemned gross infringement of human ...

Christian Group Calls for 'Meaningful Action' on North Korea | Christianpost.com

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Lives of N. Korean defectors

Approximately 20,000 North Korean defectors are living in South Korea nowadays. Frankly, this number is not particularly large: in comparison some 689,000 East Germans defected to East Germany between 1961-1989, and the number of defectors/refugees...

TIME - Exposing North Korea Photo Essay

Exposing North Korea (Photos from a closed society)

BBC News - Newsnight - Life inside the North Korean bubble

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North Korea's crumbling health system in dire need of aid | Amnesty International

Amputation and other major surgeries carried out without anaesthesia are just one indication of the dire state of North Korea’s healthcare system.

One Free Korea » Anti-Government Leaflets Found in Hoeryong

One Free Korea analyzes North Korea and South Korea - human rights, politics, diplomacy, concentration camps, google earth imagery, famine and food aid, advocacy, and military affairs. It is read by lawmakers, journalists, diplomats, activists, and...

Daily NK - Life Even Tough in Pyongyang

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They fled from the nightmare of North Korea – only to be sold into slavery in China - Herald Scotland | News | World News

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Rare Pictures from Inside North Korea - Photo Essays - TIME

Photographer Tomas van Houtryve gets an extraordinarily unfilitered view of life inside the reclusive Asian nation

Poster Children of the Hermit Kingdom | Foreign Policy

BBC News - Newsnight - Glimpses of real North Korean life behind the facade

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Awareness Of Outside World Growing In North Korea : NPR

Traditionally, North Korea is perceived as being in complete isolation from the rest of the world. But increasingly another picture is emerging. Chinese traders and South Korean aid workers are providing North Koreans with links to -- and...

LiNK - The North Korea Human Rights Crisis

We raise awareness about the human rights and humanitarian crisis in North Korea through the use of media and grassroots support. We help those who...