North Korea is executing citizens for watching foreign films as it tightens control over their private lives, according to a ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised the nation's "absolute status and security" in a speech commemorating the 77th ...

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing ...

Rogue despot Kim Jong-Un has stepped up executions of his population for crimes such as watching foreign TV or films and even ...

Kim Seongmin, a former military propagandist who fled North Korea by jumping off a train, defected to the South and from ...

More North Korean troops are dying fighting alongside Russia in its war against Ukraine. Pyongyang has been open about these ...

North Korean leaders have ordered the executions of their citizens for watching foreign films and television shows, according ...

The United Nations has released a grim new report exposing how North Korea has tightened control over its citizens’ lives, ...

The 2025 report, based on more than 300 interviews with North Koreans who fled the country in the past 10 years, found that ...

Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about the truth of ...

In North Korea, by contrast, watching a gripping TV drama can cost you your life. Under the “Anti-Reactionary Thought Law" of 2020, no North Korean may consume, possess or distribute the “rotten ...

North Korean escapees interviewed by the UN Human Rights Office expressed "a clear and strong desire for change".