SEOUL, Nov. 20 (UPI) --Kenneth Bae, the Korean-American missionary who endured 735 days as a political prisoner in North Korea, is now leading a renewed international effort to realize a unified ...

North Korea is using forced labor from its network of prison camps to mine coal and other minerals to boost exports and earn foreign currency, using the cash to support its nuclear weapons programs, ...

Korean reunification activists say human rights progress hinges on regime change, calling for “bottom-up” change towards unification and greater cross-border mobility.

Former South Korean prisoners of war again won a damages suit filed here against North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-un, on ...

A plurality of death sentences before the pandemic were for murder, while during the pandemic, prosecutions seemingly centered around cultural crimes and information crimes.

Last year the world learned that eating hot dogs in North Korea can result in punishment in a labor camp. Not kidding. The pudgy little dictator in Pyongyang--who at least looks like he's had plenty ...