Amnesty
International Report: Korea (Democratic People's Republic
of)
2005; 2004; 2003; 2002;
2001; 2000 |
Annual reports on human rights conditions |
| The
Art of Propaganda: Nationalistic Themes in the Art
of North Korea |
Gallery of pictures from two North
Korean propaganda books, Great Leader, Comrade Kim
Il Sung's 70th Birthday Commemorative, & The
Great Mother - Comrade Kim Jeong-Sook |
| Chairman
Kim's Dissolving Kingdom |
Michael Sheridan on the impending
breakdown of North Korea's system (Times Online,
Jan. 30, 2005) |
| The
Chosun Journal
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"Informing, provoking, mobilizing human
consciences for human rights in North Korea": recent news;
feature articles on NK refugees, NK prison camps, life in NK,
South Korean policy & foreign policy; testimonies; opinions
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Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Korea, Democratic People's
Republic of
2004; 2003; 2002; 2001; 2000; 1999; 1998 |
Annual reports by the Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State |
| DPRK
Information StrategyDoes It Exist?
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Paper by Peter Hayes, Director of Nautilus
Institute for Security and Sustainability (Oct. 2002)
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| DPRK
Policy Forum
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Hosted by the Nautilus Institute: articles
on North Korean political, military & energy affairs
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| Escaping
North Korea |
Sarah Buckley's BBC report on North
Korean refugees (July 27, 2004) |
| The
Greatest Story Never Told |
The cinderella soccer team from
North Korea that defeated Italy & nearly reached
the World Cup finals in 1966 |
| The
Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps |
Report with prisoners' testimonies & satellite
photographs, by U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North
Korea (Oct. 2003; PDF
version) |
 Hunger
and Human Rights: The Politics of Famine |
U.S.
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea 2005 report
on the food emergency in North Korea, post-famine changes, & issues related to the food aid programs |
| Internet
under Surveillance 2004: North Korea |
From Reporters sans frontires's
2004 report on "Obstacles to the free flow of information
online" |
| The
Invisible Exodus: North Koreans in the People's Republic of
China
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A Human Rights Watch Report (Nov. 2002)
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| Misery
and Terror: Systematic Violations of Economic, Social,
and Cultural Rights in North Korea |
Report by the UN Committee on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights of the second periodic report
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Nov. 2003;
PDF format) |
| North
Korea: Joyful Dancing |
Andreas Lorenz on Kim Jong Il & domestic
opposition to his regime (Spiegel Online, Oct.
30, 2004) |
| North
Korea & the Internet
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News & stories compiled by Leonid A.
Petrov of the Australian National University
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| North
Korea in the Vice |
Gavan Mccormack on the prospects
for survival & change of the relic 'guerrilla state'
(New Left Review, Nov.-Dec. 2002) |
| North
Koreans Think the Unthinkable |
Andrei Lankov on the possibility
of defiance of authorities by North Koreans in light
of the violence at the World Cup qualifying soccer match
on March 30 in Pyongyang (Asia Times, Apr. 19,
2005) |
| Rescue
The North Korean People ! Urgent Action Network (Renk) |
(in
English, Japanese & Korean) A civic organization working for North Korea's democratization & assistance to North Korean refugees: actvists' commentaries & refugees' accounts |
| U.S.
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) |
"is a bi-partisan, not-for-profit
human rights organization ... created to generate a broad
base of interest about conditions in North Korea and
to conduct and publish research focusing U.S. and world
attention on human rights abuse in that country" |
| World
Legal Information Institute: Korea (North)
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Laws & legal information, organized
into numerous categories
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