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Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.
Freedom of religion in North Korea (DPRK) is officially a right in North Korea. [ 1][ 2] In 2022, the UN secretary-general reported that the country's "right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion ... continues to be denied ..." ; [ 2] NGOs and North Korean defectors reported that any religious activities unauthorized by the state (e.g ...
North Korea ranks among some of the most extreme censorship in the world, with the government able to take strict control over communications. North Korea sits at one of the lowest places of Reporters Without Borders ' 2024 Press Freedom Index, [ 1] ranking 177 out of the 180 countries investigated. All media outlets are owned and controlled by ...
Shigeo Iizuka, Chairman of the Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea gives his testimony at the UN. Korean War abductees: The DPRK experienced a loss of population and labor before the Korean War when landowners, intellectuals and religious people who felt threatened fled the country. During the war, more people were lost ...
Human rights in North Korea. The mass media in North Korea is amongst the most strictly controlled in the world. The constitution nominally provides for freedom of speech and the press. However, the government routinely disregards these rights, and seeks to mold information at its source. A typical example of this was the death of Kim Jong Il ...
Media coverage of North Korea. Media coverage of North Korea (officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is hampered by an extreme lack of reliable information, coupled with an abundant number of sensationalist falsehoods. [1] There are a number of reasons for this lack of information and incorrect stories.
There are no known official statistics of religions in North Korea. Officially, North Korea is an atheist state, although its constitution guarantees free exercise of religion, provided that religious practice does not introduce foreign forces, harm the state, or harm the existing social order. Based on estimates from the late 1990s [ 2] and ...
North Korea, [ c] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ), [ d] is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.