North Korea has been accused of letting its people go hungry as it devotes ever more resources to developing its nuclear weapons programme and upgrading its military. UN human rights chief Volker Turk ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Wednesday called for an "all hands on deck" response to North Korea's human rights crisis.

North Korea dramatically increased executions during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly for consuming South Korean dramas, K ...

Volker Türk met Monday with South Korean civic groups focused on North Korean human rights, wartime abductions and inter-Korean cooperation.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk met with senior South Korean officials Wednesday to discuss human rights conditions in North Korea and other pressing concerns. Turk, who arrived ...

The equipment activist Lee Min-bok uses to send balloons laden with anti-Kim Jong Un leaflets across the border from South ...

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The U.N. Human Rights Council has adopted this year's U.N. resolution on North Korea's human rights situation, co-sponsored by South Korea and 49 other nations. The ...

Dear President Lee Jae-myung, We urge your government on behalf of 24 organizations and 6 individuals to co-sponsor the annual draft resolution on the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s ...