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 ...

Why would a person encase himself in plastic foam and swim for 10 hours in cold, defended waters to risk death with every stroke? That’s what one North Korean man did, defying a regime well known for ...

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 ...

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 ...

The abduction issue has long been treated as a bilateral concern between Japan and North Korea. But amid shifting geopolitics ...

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.

South Korea’s New Reform Party responded to a Human Rights Watch questionnaire on key human rights issues facing the South Korean people.

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 ...