NORTH Korea sentenced a US student to 15 years’ hard labour yesterday for stealing a hotel sign. University of Virginia undergraduate Otto Warmbier had already been induced to confess that his ...

Countries with a high prevalence of modern slavery share common challenges, including restricted civil liberties, ...

The North Korean government should urgently act on the recommendations from United Nations member states during the fourth ...

That is a concerning development for a country that depends on mobilized labor to help ... “Many families in North Korea also don’t intend to have more than one child these days as they ...

North Korea is forcing its youth into "backbreaking" labor at mines, farms, and construction sites, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday. The rights group said conditions are often ...

Kim Jong-un's tyranny has led to untold abuses against North Koreans. It's time for the world to hold him to account. Greg Scarlatoiu on North Korea's use of forced labor to sustain the regime.

President Yoon Suk Yeol's battle to reform a South Korea beset with structural problems under the specter of an increasingly ...

Article 32 of the KIC Labor Law stipulates that South Korean companies shall pay wages to North Korean workers directly in cash. However, on North Korea’s demand, South Korean companies remit ...

Choe Ryong-hae (C), chairman of the standing committee of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, visits a farm to encourage workers on May 1, 2024, on the occasion of Labor Day, in this photo ...