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Back to Top. It prohibits political opposition, independent media, NGOs, and trade unions. A UN Commission of Inquiry found that the government committed violations amounting to crimes against humanity, including extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, rape, and forced abortions. North Korea operates secret prison camps where presumed government opponents face torture, forced labor, and starvation.

In , the government invoked Covid to put in place extreme and unnecessary measures that further isolated the country, blocking information into and out the country, closing its border with China, and harshly controlling food and product distribution. Hundreds of Thousands Prevented from Returning to Japan. Get updates on human rights issues from around the globe. Join our movement today.

Human Rights Watch. Donate Now. Kim Jong Un, the country's young leader, made his debut on the diplomatic stage in , meeting with some of the world's most powerful leaders. He has publicly committed his country to a path of peace and denuclearization. Big questions remain however. Why now? What about North Korea's alleged human rights abuses? And is Kim sincere, or could the rest of the world get played? To ensure this year is as successful as possible, tens of thousands of people have been sent into the fields to help gather rice and corn, including the army.

Kim Jong-un has also reportedly ordered that every grain of rice in the country is to be secured and that everyone who eats should go and help with the harvest. It's creating an atmosphere of fear. Last week, South Korea's National Intelligence Service NIS told a closed-door parliamentary hearing that Mr Kim said he felt he was "walking on thin ice due to the economic situation", according to lawmakers at the briefing.

The NIS also reportedly said the lack of medicine and essential supplies has accelerated the spread of infectious diseases such as typhoid fever. This growing concern has been amplified by state media, which has highlighted measures being taken to prevent crop damage and released propaganda posters emphasising efforts to work on food production.

North Korea is facing two major issues with its food supply. The first is its farming methods. Pyongyang may have invested in new military technology and missiles, but it lacks the modern machinery needed for a speedy and successful harvest, according to experts. Choi Yongho from the Korean Rural Economic Institute told us that "the insufficient supply of agricultural equipment results in low food productivity".

From a new lookout point in the western tip of South Korea, with the affluent skyscrapers of Seoul as a backdrop, my team and I got a good view over the Han River into North Korea. It feels so close - and yet so far. I heard one young girl remark through her binoculars that they were the "same people". The villagers, dozens of them, were busy creating bails of rice and carrying them on their backs to a rather run-down tractor.

A South Korean farmer in Paju, near the demilitarised zone which separates the two countries, said it took him an hour to strip his fields of rice with a machine. If he'd done it by hand, as it's done in the North, he said one field would take him a week.