SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA  - When a South Korean court this week delivered the country's biggest legal victory for marriage equality, Kim Yong-min was
The North Korean government in 2022 used the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to maintain extreme and unnecessary restrictions on basic freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023.
South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has refocused the government on human rights issues in North Korea since taking office in May 2022, but has not addressed important domestic rights concerns.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fueled widespread speculation about his succession planning after recently showing off his daughter for the first time. But the question of whether a woman could run North Korea is a complex one.