Human rights in North Korea have seen “no improvement”  under Kim Jong Un, the Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Tuesday.

In the annual World Report 2014 the human rights NGO said that over the past year Kim Jong Un had consolidated his “rights-abusing rule,” citing state crackdowns on attempted escape, worsening labor rights, and widespread corruption as indicators of worsening human rights in North Korea.

In a statement on the Human Rights Watch’s website, deputy Asia director Phil Robertson said that Kim Jong Un had  “picked up where his father and grandfather left off, by