South Korea, the United States and Japan urged North Korea to end its human rights violations on the 10th anniversary of the release of a landmark United Nations report on abuses under the regime.
A visiting United Nations official on Tuesday called for the inclusion of human rights in future talks regarding North Korea, saying the issue should not be sidestepped in discussions about the regime's wide-ranging violations of international law.
Seoul’s North Korean human rights ambassador raised Pyongyang’s murder of a South Korean fisheries official in the United Nations on Wednesday, as an example of abuses perpetrated by the North.
North Korea accused the newly appointed UN special rapporteur on its human rights situation Friday of serving merely as a "puppet" of the United States.
Elizabeth Salmón, the newly-appointed UN special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, called for deeper cooperation with Seoul in a meeting with Foreign Minister Park Jin in Seoul on Wednesday. “I would like to thank you again for your help...
The son of the fisheries official fatally shot by North Korean soldiers in 2020 wrote a letter to the newly appointed UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea. “I am writing this letter to you because I want to let...
A customer looks at salmon displayed at a supermarket in Seoul on Sunday. The price of salmon fillets at retail markets increased between 15 to 26 percent last week compared to the beginning of the month, according to ...
The Korean summer starts with samgyetang, a ginseng and chicken soup believed to ward off the heat, and sales of meat typically jump up accordingly. For some reason, that didn't happen this year.
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