There is no doubt that North Korea treats its prisoners harshly. When outsiders are arrested, they are often sentenced to hard labour, and that's exactly what it is - compounded by the severe ...

Those who criticised or broke the rules were thrown into "political prisons", where they and their ... for years to play by the rules in North Korea - as they saw people they knew disappear ...

Korea Future, an NGO that documents and investigates human rights violations in North Korea, published a report on Friday offering insight into Pyongyang's extensive penal system, where it says ...

HRW called for North Korea to "acknowledge the problem of sexual ... rape and sexual violence had been carried out in prisons or in detention.

One of the most informative and contemporary books to be released on North Korea in early 2015, North Korea Confidential focuses on real daily life in the country as opposed to broader strategic ...

With the help of "citizen cartographers," Google Maps has filled in some of North Korea's streets and prison camps. The WSJ's Evan Ramstad gives a preview of some places the world's most reclusive ...

SEOUL -- The leader of South Korea's main opposition party was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison, suspended for two years, in a ruling that, if upheld by higher courts, would reshape the ...