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Recent articles in North Korea

A promotional poster outside a local eatery advertises a special Trump Kim-Chi dish in Singapore, 6 June 2018, Ore Huiying/Getty Images

North Korea: No improvements in basic freedoms despite diplomatic opening

North Korea remains one of the world’s most repressive states despite recent diplomatic openings with South Korea, the United States, and other countries. Human Rights Watch is urging the world to demand improvements instead of ignoring the dire human rights situation facing 25 million people.

A copy of the Korean version of "Capitalist People's Republic of Korea", right, is displayed at Kyobo Book Store in Seoul, South Korea, 31 August 2017, AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

North Korea sentences South Korean journalists to death in absentia

North Korea’s central court has passed a death sentence in absentia on four South Korean journalists for writing positive reviews of an “insulting” book about North Korea’s growing market economy.

A North Korean soldier uses her mobile phone next to a sentry near the town of Sinuiju, by the border with China, 1 June 2014, REUTERS/Jacky Chen

Reinforcing “the mosquito net”: Blocking the flow of people and information

Authorities are cracking down on people fleeing the country, and on those who share information with the outside world.