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Information related to human security / human rights in North Korea

Future inter-Korean projects shouldn’t send hard currency to DPRK: KINU director

Future inter-Korean projects shouldn’t send hard currency to DPRK: KINU director

Director of government-backed institute Son Gi-woong says Seoul should encourage "internal change"

Future inter-Korean projects shouldn’t send hard currency to DPRK: KINU director
NK News
NK News June 29, 2017
North Korea’s “abysmal” drought, seen from above

North Korea’s “abysmal” drought, seen from above

Satellite imagery reveals the heavy damage inflicted by low rainfall and poor irrigation systems

North Korea’s “abysmal” drought, seen from above
JH Ahn
JH Ahn June 27, 2017
How we should remember Otto Warmbier

How we should remember Otto Warmbier

Former head of UN COI on DPRK human rights says tragic case "tells the world that it should act"

How we should remember Otto Warmbier
Michael Kirby
Michael Kirby June 21, 2017
North Korea has crossed a red line in its brutalization of Otto Warmbier

North Korea has crossed a red line in its brutalization of Otto Warmbier

The lesson of the tragic case is clear: Americans are in danger in the DPRK

North Korea has crossed a red line in its brutalization of Otto Warmbier
Dennis P. Halpin
Dennis P. Halpin June 19, 2017
Why North Korea’s dreams of becoming a tourism hotspot were always doomed

Why North Korea’s dreams of becoming a tourism hotspot were always doomed

The Warmbier case is the latest disaster in a long-failing project

Why North Korea’s dreams of becoming a tourism hotspot were always doomed
Andrei Lankov
Andrei Lankov June 19, 2017
Why North Korea is best described a “guerrilla state”

Why North Korea is best described a “guerrilla state”

The treatment of Otto Warmbier brings to mind the brutality of the DPRK's past

Why North Korea is best described a “guerrilla state”
Benjamin R. Young
Benjamin R. Young June 15, 2017
Why Pyongyang turned down humanitarian aid from the South

Why Pyongyang turned down humanitarian aid from the South

North Korea is testing the new government - Seoul no longer has room for strategic ambiguity

Why Pyongyang turned down humanitarian aid from the South
Cha Du-hyeogn
Cha Du-hyeogn June 14, 2017
DPRK blues: How I ended up working in development in North Korea

DPRK blues: How I ended up working in development in North Korea

In the first part of a series, former NGO staffer writes about arriving in the North

DPRK blues: How I ended up working in development in North Korea
Camila Stub June 12, 2017
Following dip, North Korea cereals imports increased in April
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Following dip, North Korea cereals imports increased in April

Numbers, however, still reflect a continuing downward trend for DPRK food imports

Following dip, North Korea cereals imports increased in April
Leo Byrne
Leo Byrne June 8, 2017
PUST: Science diplomacy in action, or a future N. Korean “hostage crisis”?

PUST: Science diplomacy in action, or a future N. Korean “hostage crisis”?

Chancellor Park Chan-mo is optimistic about his school's future, despite imprisonment of colleagues

PUST: Science diplomacy in action, or a future N. Korean “hostage crisis”?
Oliver Hotham
Oliver Hotham June 7, 2017