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In 2023, the country was scored zero out of 4 for religious freedom. [8] As of 2012, an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people were believed to be held in political prison camps which are located in remote areas of North Korea, [9] many for religious and political reasons. [10]
The status of religious freedom in Asia varies from country to country. States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, whether they establish a state religion (and the legal implications that this has for both practitioners and non-practitioners), the extent to which religious organizations operating within the country ...
North Korean leader Kim Il Sung attributed the relative lack of religious practice the north in part as a result of the bombing campaigns of the United States in the Korean War, which destroyed places of worship, crucifixes, icons, and Bibles: "believers were killed and passed into the world beyond."
North Korea, a nuclear-armed communist state that technically remains at war with the South, had said nothing for a week after the deeply unpopular Yoon, 63, plunged the East Asian democracy and ...
[10] [11] [12] The Workers' Party of Korea also considers religion a tool of American imperialism and the North Korean state uses this argument to justify its activities. [ 3 ] In 2002, it was estimated that there were 12,000 Protestants , [ 13 ] and 800 Catholics in North Korea, but South Korean and international church-related groups gave ...
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.
[1] Shigeo Iizuka, Chairman of the Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea gives his testimony at the UN. Korean War abductees: The DPRK experienced a loss of population and labor before the Korean War when landowners, intellectuals and religious people who felt threatened fled the country. During the war, more people were ...
In addition to freedom of religion — one of the five freedoms established in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — Kaur noted that other laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ...