North Korea asks US universities for help
...Korea’s elite students, and has featured in a BBC Panorama programme after 18 months of negotiation. North Korea once again tops this year’s World Watch List of the 50 countries...
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Defector: ‘I’ll do all possible to end North Korea slavery’
...“That is really a question I don’t like to even think about.” The BBC is planning to start broadcasting in Korean across the whole Korean peninsula. Mr. Thae thinks that...
US missionary receives award for ‘changing hearts’ among Colombia’s FARC
...within its ranks or outside it. Spin abounds. Members seem careful to say nothing against other Communist regimes. Upon mention of North Korea, Santrich said, “We aren’t going to criticize...
‘Like a jail without bars’: what it’s like working in China with women refugees from North Korea
Women at a church group in China, 2016. Free from the constraints of living in North Korea, they often dress in traditional Korean clothes. (World Watch Monitor) Hwa-Young* works in...
Nationalism in Asia, Islamic extremism in Africa – the 2017 World Watch List
...A closer look at the Top 10 Learn more about: How the World Watch List is made What are the “Engines of persecution” North Korea once again tops the list,...
North Korea
The Kim dynasty, which has ruled North Korea for three generations, are worshipped like gods, and any suggestion that there is a higher authority than the nation’s leader, Kim Jong-Un,...
Sheikh blames Saudi Arabia for global rise of Islamist terrorism
...the “worst offending” 23 countries in the last two years, and in seven of the remaining 12, including North Korea, Syria and Nigeria, “the problems were already so bad they...
Korean church leaders ‘can broker peace’
Church leaders from North and South Korea have stressed the importance of dialogue between the two countries’ Christians for brokering peace. At a conference last week, church leaders from both...
UK Foreign Office hosts global summit on freedom of religion or belief
...freedom. Countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Myanmar, Bangladesh and North Korea are also variously accused by human rights organisations. Each of these countries appears in the annual World...
Freedom of religion or belief ‘the defining issue of our time’
...Lords, UK and steering member of the IPPFoRB, noted that the North American team is less likely to address problems in North Korea than, for example, an Asian team; Malaysian...