UN Report Highlights North Korea’s Deepening Repression

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Soldiers participate in a commemorative march in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 25, 2025, to mark the 93rd anniversary of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army. © 2025 KIM WON JIN/AFP via Getty Images United Nations Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón addressed a UN General Assembly committee on October 27 following reports that North Korean authorities had increased the use of public executions, including for recent offenses.In her report, Salmón characterized the government’s use of the death penalty as “a criminal sanction [and] means of social, political…

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