Congress should renew the North Korean Human Rights Act, but also urgently exert pressure on the State Department to preserve ...

Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying Pyongyang's ...

North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Kim Song called the allegations that his country violates human rights “a burlesque of intrigue and fabrication" and insisted that tens of millions of North ...

This week, the United Nations General Assembly met for its first-ever public high-level session devoted to North Korea's human rights situation. The meeting highlighted Pyongyang’s brutal ...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will hold its first high-level meeting next week over human rights abuses and violations by North Korea, diplomatic and civic group sources said Monday.

North Korea's embassy in London did not answer phone calls seeking comment. The government has in the past denied abuses and accused the U.N. and foreign countries of trying to use human rights as ...

Despite years of delays and a grand opening ceremony, the world's most controversial Benidorm-inspired seaside resort has ...

North Korean authorities have intensified surveillance of workers dispatched to Russia, immediately repatriating those caught ...

Robert King was a special envoy for North Korean human rights during the Obama administration. He joins NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro to talk about a potential deal that would release American prisoners.

North Korea said on Monday it strongly condemns the U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities as a grave violation of a sovereign state's security interests and territorial rights, the North ...