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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.
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 ...
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 Korea has formal ties with 159 countries, but had only 53 diplomatic missions overseas, including three consulates and three representative offices, before it pulled out of Angola and Uganda ...
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 ...
"But the Chinese are waiting for an opportunity where North Korea, Russia, and China can come stronger together, and I think North Korea sending the troops to Russia is a testimony to that."
North Korea has a high level of security and secrecy. Communication with the outside world is limited, and internal communication also seems limited at times. [15] Reporters Without Borders describes North Korea as the world's most closed country, [33] ranking it last in the Press Freedom Index. [34]
Earlier this month, the United States, South Korea and Japan launched a new multinational team to monitor the enforcement of sanctions against North Korea, a move that Pyongyang said was "utterly ...