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Lina Park
Lina Park is a news trainee at NK News. She previously researched North Korean human rights issues at Hanvoice and South Korean foreign relations at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada.
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News North Korea ranks among world’s most repressive nations in global freedom indexFreedom House cites DPRK’s pervasive surveillance and prison camps, placing country with likes of Syria and South Sudan North Korea continues to rank as one of the world’s most repressive countries due to its reliance on strict surveillance, prison camps and other instruments of social control, according to a new report. The nonprofit organization Freedom House has awarded North Korea zero points for political rights and three points for civil liberties in its new "Freedom in the World 2024" report, making the DPRK one of the lowest-ranked countries. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |