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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.
Poverty in North Korea has been widely repeated by Western media sources [2] [3] [4] with the majority referring to the famine that affected the country in the mid-1990s. [5] A 2006 report suggests that North Korea required an estimated 5.3m tonnes of grain per year while harvesting only an estimated 4.5m tonnes, and thus relies on foreign aid ...
Present-day North Korea has the highest number of military and paramilitary personnel in the world, with 7,769,000 active, reserve and paramilitary personnel, or approximately 30% of its population. Its active-duty army of 1.28 million is the fourth largest in the world, after China, the United States and India; consisting of 4.9% of its ...
But Venezuela's deputy U.N. Ambassador Joaquin Alberto Perez Ayestaran read a statement to reporters on behalf of a group of 18 states, including North Korea, China and Russia.
Specific data and ranking given by the report, North Korea is ranked last out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index 2018. [26] All newspapers and broadcasters are owned by the government and the main focus is to consolidate the national unity and to ensure the absolute loyalty of Kim Jong Un, the third generation of Kim family.
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 ...
According to the Press Freedom Index, North Korea has the fourth least free press in the world. According to the Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index, North Korea has the highest proportion of people in modern slavery. The Open Doors foundation's World Watch List lists the country as the worst persecutor of Christians in the world.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un keeps a close watch over the media in his country and controls much of what the outside world knows about the country. 21 photos of North Korea that Kim Jong Un ...