Human Security / Human Rights
Information related to human security / human rights in North Korea
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?
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
