Inmates in North Korean prisons are raped, beaten, and starved, watchdog finds. Some eat roaches and rats just to survive.

Korea Future, an NGO, detailed the experiences of detainees, including one forced to abort her child when she was at least seven months pregnant.
Human Rights Watch

North Korea: ‘Lost Decade’ of Rights Abuses

(New York) – A new United Nations report finds that the North Korean government has increased the use of surveillance, forced labor, and severe punishments over the past decade, maintaining “total ...
The Atlantic

A Stark Reminder of North Korean Cruelty

Amid internet riffs about Kim Jong-il looking at things (Kim Jong-un, too), and listicles such as the Funniest Evil Dictatorship Ever, it's possible to forget the atrocities that make up North Korea's ...
csis.org

North Korea: Revisionist Ambitions and the Changing International Order

The emergence of an “Axis of Upheaval” consisting of revisionist states—which, to borrow language from former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, seek to “alter the foundational principles of the ...
The New York Times

America Can’t Do to North Korea What It Just Did to Iran

Mr. Hennigan writes about national security, foreign policy and conflict for the Opinion section. One day after 14 American 30,000-pound bombs thundered down on Iran, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry ...
The New York Times

North Korea’s Glossy New Surface: Apps, Beaches and a Fake Starbucks

Videos taken by visitors to the isolated country provide a rare glimpse of how it’s mimicking the consumerism of the outside world. By Jiawei Wang and Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul North Korea is ...