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Corruption in North Korea occurs at one of the worst rates in the world. North Korea is ranked 172 out of 180 countries in Transparency International 's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index . The 180 countries of the Index are scored on a scale of 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ('very clean") according to the perceived corruption in the public sector ...
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.
The North Korea International Documentation Project (NKIDP) is part of the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. [1] It seeks to serve as an informational clearinghouse on North Korea for both the scholarly and policy making communities by widely disseminating newly declassified documents on the DPRK from its former communist allies [2] as ...
No other country that has developed an indigenous nuclear weapons stockpile has agreed to trade all of it away for concessions. It's fantasy to believe North Korea will be the first.
Many experts are skeptical that North Korea actually detonated a hydrogen bomb, citing the country's long history of misleading and false claims. But if it did, the incident would represent a ...
Also, secret police with a high ranking are responsible to censor all the publications in North Korea and grant approval. [13] Another duty of secret police is to run the concentration camps in North Korea. [13] They train the guards to maltreat the prisoners and guards will get punishment if they feel sympathy with the inmates' misfortune. [13]
The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward for information about an alleged scheme in which North Korean technology workers got jobs at unsuspecting U.S. companies then stole their ...
In February 2016, the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 (H.R. 757 Pub. L. 114–122 (text)) was passed which: [2] requires the President to sanction entities found to have contributed to North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program, arms trade, human rights abuses, or other illegal activities. [2]