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Human rights groups called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to speak up for North Korean defectors at the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and submit a set of questions for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle, scheduled to take place in Vietnam on May 7, to address issues of both North Korean refugees and Vietnam War prisoners of war.

In an uncompromising signal aimed at Pyongyang, the government of South Korea is vowing to prosecute those who violate human rights in North Korea if and when the two countries are reunited.

EASTERN EQUATORIA - “We have lived our entire lives without knowing much about the peace process in our country. We need more sensitization at the grassroots, especially for youth, women, and traditional leaders,” said Koma James, chief of Nimule payam [administrative division] in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state.Mr.

While pro- and anti-Trumpers pondered the implications of a precedent shattered, the brouhaha compelled a Korean-American academic to pose this question on social media: Has the student - South Korea -- overtaken the master - the U.S. - in the practice of democracy?

Exactly 881 escapees who resettled in the South lived near the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site

A Seoul-based group flags leakage of radioactive materials into groundwater as a major concern.

Newly revealed evidence about radiation leaks near North Korea's prime testing site may explain a deepening mystery -- why the regime of Kim Jong-un has not conducted a new nuclear weapons test in more than five years.

North Korea's nuclear test site puts North Korean residents and people in South Korea, Japan, and China at risk of exposure to radioactive elements.

Download logoAhead of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) meeting on South Sudan on 30 November, Amnesty International and the South

Ahead of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) meeting on South Sudan on 30 November, Amnesty International and the South Sudanese Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) have called on the African Union to speed up the formation of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan (HCSS). The AUPSC must call on the African Union […]