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Censorship is a form of media monopoly, where the government oversees all media content in order to maintain obedience. North Korea utilizes a three-tiered approach to control its citizens at the ideological, physical, and institutional level. [4] This applies not only to North Korean residents but also to visitors. [5]
North Korea has 12 principal newspapers and 20 major periodicals, all published in Pyongyang. [37] Foreign newspapers are not sold on the streets of the capital. [38] Every year, North Korean press jointly publishes a New Year editorial, also broadcast by KCNA, which regularly attracts the attention of the international news media. [39] [40 ...
The South-Korean-based Database Center for North Korean Human Rights has collected unverified testimony on 1,193 historic executions in North Korea through 2009. [3] Amnesty International reported that there were 105 executions between 2007 and 2012. [4] The Foreign Policy periodical estimated there were 60 executions in 2010. [5]
The Korean peninsula, with China and Russia as its Northern neighbors, and Japan to the East and South. Korea had for centuries been a high-ranking tributary state within the Imperial Chinese tributary system, [i] until in the late 19th century Japan began to assert greater control over the Korean peninsula, culminating in its annexation in 1910.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/167, titled "Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly about the situation in North Korea, which was adopted on December 18, 2007 at the 62nd session of the General Assembly.
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.
[2] [26] [27] North Korea did not cooperate with this mandate. In addition, in 2009, the North Korean government was the first state to not accept any of the 167 recommendations received from the adoption of its first Universal Periodic Review (a review on human rights conducted by the HRC on all UN members).
The Propaganda and Agitation Department (PAD, Korean: 선전선동부 [1]), [a] officially translated as the Publicity and Information Department, [3] is a department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) tasked with coordinating the creation and dissemination of propaganda in North Korea. It is the highest propaganda ...