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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.
Joseph Stalin reportedly handpicked Kim Il Sung, who was a fluent Russian speaker, to lead North Korea in 1948. [12] Soviet influence in North Korea was endorsed under Kim Il Sung. The degree of censorship seen in North Korea today began with the nationalization of major industries, labor reforms, and the seizure of privately owned land.
Conscription in North Korea occurs despite ambiguity concerning its legal status. Men are universally conscripted while women undergo selective conscription. Conscription takes place at age 17 and service ends at 30. Children of the political elites are exempt from conscription, as are people with bad songbun (ascribed social status in North ...
Why are so many North Koreans crying in pictures with Kim Jong-Un. Nick Cardona. January 25, 2018 at 10:05 AM. There are many things the rest of the world just doesn’t understand about North Korea.
President Donald Trump promised Thursday to 'confront very strongly' the issue of North Korea’s 'very, very bad behavior' in test-launching missiles.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict the practiced Juche ideology. [1]
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 ...
After the establishment of North Korea, an education system modeled largely on that of the Soviet Union was established. According to North Korean sources, at the time of North Korea's establishment, two-thirds of school-age children did not attend primary school, and most adults, numbering 2.3 million, were illiterate.