Essay: “We cannot look away” – the international community must end its complacency in responding to the repression of the North Korean regime

ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says that 10 years after a landmark UN report highlighted human rights abuses in North Korea, there remain significant barriers to holding the ruling regime to account…
UN experts say North Korea missile landed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv

United Nations Reuters The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on 2nd January was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. In the 32-page report, the UN sanctions monitors concluded that […]
Two-thirds of North Koreans suffer from food insecurity, malnutrition and lack of access to healthcare and sanitation, says UN official
Two-thirds of the 25 million people in North Korea suffer from food insecurity, malnutrition and a lack of access to basic healthcare and sanitation services in a “largely forgotten or overlooked” crisis, according to a senior UN official. Tapan Mishra, UN resident coordinator for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said in a document assessing the […]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide among international coalition calling for North Korea to be held accountable for alleged “crimes against humanity”
Religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide is among a coalition of groups calling for the North Korean Government to be held to account for alleged crimes against humanity. The International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK), whose members include the UK based organisation, this week voiced its support for two UN reports […]