UNITED NATIONS — North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and people are becoming more desperate and reportedly starving in parts of the country as the economic situation worsens ...

North Korea uses songbun, a socio-political classification system that groups people into different classes, based on their perceived political loyalty and that of their parents and ancestors to ...

The government also fails to protect the rights of children and marginalized groups including women and people with disabilities. North Korea’s failures to promote economic rights resulted in ...