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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
Group Defection Sees Safe Passage 
Date : August 23, 2014
Daily NK has learned that the 16 North Koreans from North Hamgyung Province, who defected at the beginning of this month, have arrived safely in Thailand. The defection,
A young North Korean defector finds his voice — in rap 
Date : August 21, 2014
Most rap songs do not deal with matters of geopolitical significance — such as nuclear weapons and labor camps — but Kang Chunhyok is not your typical
Pope Francis Calls for Peace and Reconciliation with North Korea 
Date : August 19, 2014
Even though Pope Francis capped his five-day visit to South Korea with prayers for peace and reconciliation on the divided peninsula, North Korea launched rockets on Th
North Korea to publish its own 'rosy' human rights report 
Date : August 18, 2014
North Korea has announced it would publish its own "rosy" human rights report, six months after a UN inquiry published a list of violations so severe as to amount to cr
Kerry calls for immediate shutdown of N. Korea's gulags 
Date : August 18, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry strongly urged North Korea Wednesday to immediately shut down its political prison camps, saying that such violations of human rights
Seven religious believers arrested in North Korea 
Date : August 18, 2014
North Korea authorities have arrested seven religious believers in North Korea with the cooperation of Chinese police, according to Dong-A Ilbo. According
Mercedes limousines spotted in North Korea 'could breach UN sanctions 
Date : August 12, 2014
Two Mercedes-Benz limousines, spotted at a North Korean military parade, could constitute another breach of United Nations sanctions. The limousines appeared on a br
Former NK Prisoner Forms Unlikely Alliance with Ex-gulag Guard 
Date : August 12, 2014
Shin Dong-hyuk, a North Korean political prisoner, and Ahn Myung-chul, one of the notoriously heavy-handed guards, collaborated to speak about North Korean human rights
Kirby calls on UN to act on North Korea 
Date : August 7, 2014
Michael Kirby has called on the United Nations to show the same resolve and unanimity on North Korean human rights violations as it did on passing a resolution on downe
Preventing a massacre in North Koreas gulags 
Date : August 5, 2014
The U.N. Commission of Inquiry's report on North Korea documented numerous crimes against humanity, including the systematic abuse of prisoners and food po
UNSC Urged to Discuss NK Human Rights Violations 
Date : July 31, 2014
U.N. Ambassadors from the United States, France and Australia sent a joint letter to the president of the United Nations Security Council which called on the U.N to for
 
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