Human Security / Human Rights
Information related to human security / human rights in North Korea
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?
How the Sakhalin Koreans became Russian
New generation of island's ethnic Korean residents feel little kinship to North or South
How the famine helped improve our choices in North Korea
How North Korea's devastating famine surprisingly helped improve local access to food and consumer goods
Photos show rapid reconstruction of collapsed apartment in Pyongyang
North Korean construction workers started work on new structure less than two months after accident
The story of the Sakhalin Korean rebellion
Short-lived rebellion by Koreans of southern descent ultimately severed ties to ancestral homeland
Why Russian Koreans didn’t fall for Pyongyang propaganda
Accustomed to communism’s realities, Sakhalin residents weren’t taken in by promises of paradise
Matthew Miller’s excellent adventure in North Korea
Exclusive interview with U.S. detainee reveals hurdles to getting arrested in North Korea
Straub: Why North Korea released its American prisoners
The American angle and North Korea's psychological satisfaction
