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Radio broadcasts encourage Party cadres to compare notes 
Date : November 30, 2015
More Workers’ Party cadres in North Korea are tuning into banned radio broadcasts beamed in from other countries on a regular basis, and with this comes growing awarenes…
Marginal improvement at 'kyohwaso' amid international pressure 
Date : November 30, 2015
A continual number of deaths within North Korea’s kyohwaso [reeducation camps, which function as prisons] from torture and beatings has prompted leader Kim Jong Un to or…
N. Korean human rights resolution passes through U.N. committee 
Date : November 24, 2015
The Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution on North Korea's human rights situation that calls for referring North Korea to the International Cri…
45 countries sponsor new U.N. resolution on North Korea human rights 
Date : November 17, 2015
A total of 45 countries sponsored a new U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for the referral of North Korea to the International Criminal Court for its human rights …
U.N. draft resolution asks U.N. to refer North Korea to ICC 
Date : November 5, 2015
The European Union and Japan have circulated a draft U.N. resolution that encourages the U.N. Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Crimina…
North Korea putting thousands into forced labour abroad, U.N. says 
Date : November 5, 2015
United Nation's special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, Marzuki Darusman, claims that tens of thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work abroad in condi…
Ex-U.N. panel chief calls for renewed attention on N.K. 
Date : November 2, 2015
The former head of a U.N. investigative panel on North Korea's human rights violations, Michel Kirby, called for renewed international attention to the problem …
Efforts to bring perpetrators to justice key to improving North Korea human righ... 
Date : October 29, 2015
Efforts to bring perpetrators to justice key to improving North Korea human rights situation: U.N. chiefIn the September 25-dated report to the U.N. General Assembly, U.N…
BBC director Tony Hall plans to start broadcasting radio in North Korea for the ... 
Date : October 27, 2015
The Korean Central News Agency provides the only source of information for all media outlets in North KoreaThe BBC is planning to start broadcasting daily news in North K…
N. Korea vows counteraction over proposed U.N. resolution on N.K. human rights 
Date : October 22, 2015
North Korea announced that it would take "the toughest counteraction" against a proposed U.N. resolution that targets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over the North's dis…
S. Korean Official: UN Seeks New Action Over N. Korea Human Rights 
Date : October 22, 2015
The United Nations is seeking renewed ways to charge North Korean officials to the International Court of Justice (ICC), VOA (Voice of America) reported on Wednesday.&nbs…
North Korean Children Left Untreated After Tuberculous Meningitis Outbreak 
Date : October 20, 2015
A recent outbreak of tuberculous meningitis (a bacterial infection of the brain and spinal cord) in North Korea has left many children dead and others crippled after auth…
Hopes dashed- another sorry potato harvest 
Date : October 14, 2015
Many North Koreans restrained to a potato-only diet get sick with malnutritionSources within North Korea have revealed that the autumn potato harvest in Yanggang Province…
U.N. seeks inspection of North Korea for forced disappearances 
Date : September 9, 2015
UN found that 20 hundred thousand people around the world have been forcefully disappeared by North Korea.On December 2010, by its 65th General Assembly, UN decided to de…
North Korean Authorities Purge Border Guards After Shooting Incident, Defections 
Date : August 31, 2015
The North Korean authorities have recently set up a special inspection team and launched investigation over the officials and soldiers of the 25th brigade in the neighbor…
 
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