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Oliver Hotham
Oliver Hotham was an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. Follow him on Twitter @oliverhotham.
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.