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Kim Young Hwan in Chinese Detention

NKnet researcher and North Korea human rights campaigner Kim Young Hwan was recently arrested by the Chinese security forces and has been in detention in the country for more than 50 days, it has emerged.According to the South Korean Consulate-General in Shenyang, “Kim Young Hwan is being detained with three …

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Time to Reply to KAL Inquiry

The head of the Association for Family Members of the KAL Kidnapping Victims, Hwang In Cheol believes that following North Korea’s response to calls for information on

Secret Investigation for 3 Arrested Men

It has been confirmed that Kim Young Hwan, a former leader of the underground ‘Minhyukdang’ political party and an active North Korean human rights activists for over

American Family Believes Missing Son Held in N.Korea

The parents of an American college student, who went missing in China nearly eight years ago, are now certain he is being held in North Korea. But

Not Auschwitz, But Mauthausen

This was Mauthausen. I want you to remember the word… I want you to know, I want you to never forget or let our disbelieving friends forget, that

Defectors, groups unite over death of S.Korean in NK camp

Former North Korean defectors in South Korea and civic groups championing human rights in North Korea have joined forces to blast the Stalinist country in the wake

North Korea ‘executes three people found guilty of cannibalism’

There were reports of outbreaks of cannibalism in the isolated state in the late 1990s after a disastrous famine led to the deaths of an estimated 2 million

South Korean report details alleged abuses at North Korea’s prison camps

SEOUL — A South Korean government-funded human rights group has released a series of raw firsthand accounts of North Korea’s political prison camps, Seoul’s first comprehensive attempt to

Campbell’s Hague plea irks North abductee kin

WASHINGTON — Relatives of Japanese abducted by North Korea said they were upset by remarks by Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat on East Asian affairs, in

Husband rejects North’s response to UN enquiry, demands concrete proof

Pyongyang sent an official reply to a UN enquiry about the fate of Shin Sook-ja and her two daughters, who have been trapped in the North after