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Articles - North Korea

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North Korea

RSF surveys increasing clandestine news networks and info-sharing tactics

An ever-porous information border around North Korea has allowed Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to put together a comprehensive report on the media situation in the world's most repressive dictatorship.

North Korea

Many journalists still held in prison camps

A former North Korean political prisoner has told Reporters Without Borders (RSF) that two North Korean journalists died in a prison camp in the north-eastern part of the county in 2001. Several journalists continue to be held in harsh conditions in these camps.

North Korea / Awards

North Korean journalist wins human rights award

The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is honouring exiled North Korean journalist Kim Seong-Min with its 2009 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award. Seong-Min is the founder and director of Free North Korea Radio and is being recognised for his "courageous defiance" of the North Korean regime.

North Korea / United States

Bill Clinton returns to U.S. with pardoned journalists

IFEX members the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomed last week's release of U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were jailed since March in North Korea. Following rare talks with reclusive leader Kim Jong-il, who pardoned the women, former U.S. President Bill Clinton brought the journalists home on 5 August.

North Korea / United States

U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labour

U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labour in North Korea after a closed-door trial from 4 to 8 June, report the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

North Korea

COREA DEL NORTE CALIFICADA COMO EL PEOR PAÍS PARA LOS PERIODISTAS

North Korea

LA CORÉE DU NORD SE CLASSE AU DERNIER RANG COMME LE PIRE PAYS DU MONDE POUR LES JOURNALISTES

North Korea

NORTH KOREA RANKED WORLD'S WORST COUNTRY FOR JOURNALISTS

It is no accident that Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) has ranked North Korea as the world's worst country for journalists for the past three years. In a country whose leaders believe the duty of all journalists is to publicise the "greatness" of President Kim Jong-il and demonstrate the "superiority of North Korean socialism," independent reporting is virtually non-existent.