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North Korea Severely Punishes Religious Freedom 2 hours ago International Religious Freedom Senior Official Dan Nadel speaks at a news conference to announce the annual International Religious Freedom Report at the State Department in Washington, DC, on May 12, 2021. Share share Print The United States continues to be “deeply concerned about [North Korea’s] wide-ranging human rights abuses, including severe restrictions on religious freedom,” said Senior State Department Official Daniel ...

Posted Today The goal of modern cancer treatments is to kill off cancer cells while causing the least amount of damage to the surrounding tissue. This is not easy to do with current therapies, which often cause significant side effects. Now researchers at the University of Edinburgh have tested new light-activated drugs that use a Trojan horse technique to kill cancer and bacterial cells. Cancer and bacterial cells ten to be greedy and consume more of the chemical food compounds for energy, whi...

Daily NK Tracking changes at North Korea’s Camp 14 through satellite imagery Over time, the amount of corn drying at the camp has gradually grown smaller, perhaps because of bad harvests View of Camp 14 in Kaechon, South Pyongan Province / Photo: Google Earth Camp 14 is one of North Korea’s prison camps for political prisoners, located in Oedong-ri, Gaechon, South Pyongan Province. It faces another camp, Camp 18, which sits two kilometers to the southeast across the Daedong Rive...

Kim Won Jin / AFP / Getty Images Kim Jong-un acted quickly. On January 22, 2020, North Korea closed its borders with China and Russia to stop a new, mysterious virus from spreading into the country. At the time, what we now know as Covid-19, had killed just nine people and infected 400 others. More than a year later, the hermit kingdom’s border remains sealed tight shut. North Korea’s response to the pandemic has been one of the most extreme and paranoid in the world, experts say. The lockd...

North Korean defectors living in South Korea are navigating record high levels of unemployment right now, according to a recent survey, and a prominent defector-politician is now proposing a bill to boost their job-seeking prospects. On Tuesday, National Assembly member Ji Seong-ho proposed a bill that would layer on extra perks for businesses that employ […]

Over 26 pct of N. Korean Defectors Sent Money Back Home This Year Posted on (image: Yonhap) SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 26 percent of North Korean defectors living in South Korea sent remittances back to the communist country this year, a survey showed Thursday. According to the poll conducted by the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) and NK Social Research (NKSR), a survey agency specializing in North Korean defectors, 26.6 percent of the defectors in the South s...

news Over 26 pct of N. Korean defectors sent money back home this year: poll SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Yonhap) -- Over 26 percent of North Korean defectors living in South Korea sent remittances back to the communist country this year, a survey showed Thursday. According to the poll conducted by the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) and NK Social Research (NKSR), a survey agency specializing in North Korean defectors, 26.6 percent of the defectors in the South sent remittances to the N...

VIETNAM NEWS DECEMBER 25 (Updated hourly) Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  25/12/2020    09:45 GMT+7 Spreading love in Christmas time browser not support iframe. Another Christmas season has come. This year Christmas is special due to impacts of COVID-19. However, Vietnam has been praised for its efforts in controlling the epidemic outbreak, ...

Dec. 15, 2020 8:37 am ET SEOUL—For years, activist groups in South Korea have sent everything from Bibles to K-pop across the border to the North. Now that could cost them up to three years in prison and a $27,000 fine. Late Monday, South Korea banned sending material across the border that was critical of the North Korean regime without permission from the Seoul government. The new law, backed by the ruling party of President Moon Jae-in, drew criticism from North Korean defectors an...