Human Security / Human Rights
Information related to human security / human rights in North Korea
How do North Koreans spend days off?
In this week's Ask a North Korean, we learn that workers get days off like anywhere else - just don't get caught listening to K-pop
Defectors value their freedom but miss their homes
Saddened by discrimination, defectors see limited options for changing the North substantially
Creating a paradigm shift for abused North Korean women
More discussion of sexual abuse among North Korean women, refugees needed
A look into the DPRK mental health system
How North Korea uses the practice of psychiatry to reinforce societal values
North Korea’s passports, and how they use them
Yes, the North has passports, and has them for more than one type of visit abroad
Bright lights, not human rights: Why North Koreans envy their neighbors
Ask a North Korean: What do people along the border think about the Chinese – and those living in Pyongyang?
Change is in the air in North Korea
Expect better living conditions, but little change in personal liberties, inter-Korean relations
Defector: Why balloons stand no chance of changing North Korea
Foreigners expecting anti-government leaflets to stimulate regime change misunderstand the realities of North Korea
North Korean workers abroad aren’t slaves
Far from exploited, laborers outside the North make much more than at home
Being a minor party in the North
In a totalitarian regime, what do N. Korea’s other political blocs do?
