North Korean authorities released South Korean national Yu X ( his full name is deleted for safety reasons) on 13 August 2009, after nearly five months in detention ...
Approximately 200000 people are held in detention facilities in North Korea. Many are subjected to torture and other ill-treatment such as hard labour. The death ...
Thousands of North Koreans illegally cross the border into China every year. If caught by the Chinese authorities and forcibly returned, they face detention, torture ...
Nearly a million people have died because of acute food shortages since the mid-1990s, and millions more, especially children and the elderly, suffer from chronic ...
