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North Korea publicly tries, humiliates women for illegal breast implants

Hundreds of people are seen seated for a public trial at an open-air theater in North Korea in this image captured from KBS footage. [SCREEN CAPTURE] North Korean authorities reportedly held a public ...
Human Rights Watch

North Korea: Unrelenting Repression, Hunger, Inequality

In 2025, the North Korean government increased surveillance, information controls, and restrictions on market activity ...
UPI

Why Committee for Human Rights in North Korea must be funded -- now more than ever

Oct. 27 (UPI) --At a time when authoritarian regimes are advancing, democracies are wavering and human rights are increasingly treated as optional rather than essential, one small organization ...
New York Sun

‘Emergency Crackdown Order’ Targets ‘Anti-Socialist’ North Korean Women Who Choose Breast Augmentation

Accused of ‘bourgeois customs and rotten capitalist behavior unfit for women living under socialism,’ two women had to undergo ‘a public examination’ of their bodies, leaving spectators ‘shocked.’ ...
Yahoo

North Korean defectors call for renewed human rights pressure on Pyongyang

SEOUL, Oct. 22 (UPI) --North Korean defectors and experts urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major conference on the issue opened in ...
Human Rights Watch

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...