(New York) – North Korea’s government under Kim Jong Un has effectively sealed its northern border with China, worsening an already grave humanitarian and human rights situation in the country ...

About 60 North ... the country and worsened an already grave humanitarian and human rights crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic. After the start of the pandemic in 2020, the North Korean ...

“North Korea has never been as strong – strong militarily as well as strong in oppressing its civilian population – as it is ...

North Korea on Tuesday denounced U.S.-led plans for an open Security Council meeting on its human rights record as "despicable" and only aimed at achieving Washington’s geopolitical ambitions.

China has been reluctant to address North Korean human rights issues ... the ongoing division between democratic and authoritarian countries, which could potentially diminish North Korea ...

But the two defectors and human rights defenders ... called on China and all other countries to end forced repatriations to North Korea. He called on U.N. member nations to urge the Security ...

The human-rights horrors he describes are all too real. Among the abuses recounted is the punishment for North Koreans who are repatriated after having escaped to China ... country, and many seek to ...

That may soon change, and has led to concern among human rights advocates ... The easiest way out of North Korea is through China, but during the pandemic, the two countries all but choked ...

Hundreds of thousands of North Korean women ... after escaping their despotic country and finding themselves trapped in China’s so-called "Red Zone," a human rights group says.

Diamond said that having a more porous border between China and North Korea would ... the lack of transparent data about human rights in North Korea, a country which has historically maintained ...

Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Paparo said China ... North Korea, stating “ballistic missiles pose a direct threat to our homeland and our allies” and highlighting the ...