Q&A: North Korea’s human rights crisis

Headline Title: Q&A: North Korea’s human rights crisis 08 April 2013 As tensions escalate on the Korean peninsula, Amnesty International answers key questions about human rights in North Korea.How bad are human rights in North Korea?Millions of people in North Korea suffer extreme forms of repression and human rights violations that violate nearly the entire spectrum of their human rights. In January 2013, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said that North Korea had “one of the worst –but least understood and reported - human rights situations in the…

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