Jeffrey Fowle, an American who was arrested in North Korea in May for leaving a Bible at his hotel, has been released and is on his way home to rejoin his family, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Tuesday. Unauthorized religious activity is forbidden by the totalitarian regime...
North Korean prisoner: Dining on cement squares and sewage and fingernails
Status: Released from incarceration. Sentence: No sentence reported. Per AP, Kim Hak Song has been "accused of committing unspecified hostile acts against the country." Arrest details: North Korea announced the arrest in May 2017. The country's official Korean Central News Agency said "a...
North Korea is continuing to expand its political prisoner labor camps, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International. Proof of this can be seen in newly released satellite images, commissioned by Amnesty International, that focus on two political prisoner camps, Camp 15 at Yodok...
Hinojosa happily playing a guitar and singing while in a Communist prisoner of war camp. The North Korean and Chinese propaganda radio messages were broadcast in English and Korean while their leaflets were written in English, Korean and Spanish (for American soldiers of Puerto Rican descent). ...
aAt the United Nations\' prisoner-of-war camp at Pusan, prisoners are assembled in one of the camp compounds. The camp contains both North Korean and Chinese Communist prisoners. April 1951. Gahn, State Dept. (USIA) 在联合国\ ‘战俘营在釜山,囚犯在其中一种阵营化合物中被装配。 阵营包含北韩...
Last year the North Korean government released a statement blasting the United States over the embassy incident…and singled out one person by name: Christopher Ahn…the North Koreans called him "a felon who deserves severe punishment from every aspect…" ...
North Korea is building two new submarines, including one capable of firing ballistic missiles, a South Korean lawmaker said on Tuesday, following a closed-door briefing by the South's National Intelligence Service. North Korea has a large submarine fleet but only one known experimental submarine...
This amounted to the UNSC’s affirmation of the DPRK’s stand that the “Cheonan” case is not a matter to be dealt with at the UN forum as asserted by the United States and the south Korean authorities, but a matter to be settled by the north and the south of Korea. ...
I provided some images to Radio Free Asia for the Korean media and I add one here: UPDATE 2 (2017-4-27): More prisoner housing in Yodok is being razed. In September 2015, Joseph Bermudez and the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea reported that the “Revolutionizing Zone” of Yodo...