A United Nations official has expressed concern about the human rights situation in North Korea, saying its people are living ''through one of the worst times."

The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea keeps alive the truth that the Korean people in the North are not invisible, not forgotten and not abandoned.

When Kim Jong Un first entered the scene in 2011, taking over the role of supreme leader of North Korea from his father, Howard X immediately thought: ‘he looks a lot like me’. The music producer hadn’t ever considered being an impressionist before.

November 1, 2025: This past June, South Korea turned off its propaganda loudspeakers facing north along the DMZ/Demilitarized Zone. The loudspeakers had been operating for a year, broadcasting South Korean music performed by world famous K-Pop groups. This shutdown was a South Korean effort to reduce political and military tensions.

Chinese police are co-opting brokers who help North Korean defectors in China reach South Korea, taking control of defection routes and intensifying crackdowns.

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A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border. The South Korean military says it took the custody of the soldier who crossed the central portion of the land border on Sunday.