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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 Nadel. Embed share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:49 0:00 Pop-out player The Un...

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, which makes them susceptible to this novel Trojan horse approach. Image credit: DataBase Center for Lif...

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 River. The inmates dig coal in underground mines or work hard in the fields. North Korean defector Shin ...

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 lockdowns and quarantines it has imposed have been strict, while border restrictions have put a halt to f...

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 […]