North Korea

North Koreans caught trying to flee their country face execution. But for one mother and her son, the risk was worth it.

North Koreans caught trying to flee their country face execution. But for one mother and her son, the risk was worth it. Watch this amazing report from our Asia Correspondent, John Sparks.

As David Moyes licks his wounds, a victim of his predecessor’s success, Channel 4 News would like him to take heart – there are many who have been forced to live in the shadow of “giants”.

North Korean state television airs photographs of Kim Jong-un, the country’s dictator with one of the most appalling human rights records on the planet, as a cherub-faced child.

North Korea’s regime executes a high-ranking official “by flamethrower”, a South Korean newspaper reports.

An unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, has crashed in South Korea, officials say, raising suspicions that it is a part of North Korea’s burgeoning espionage arsenal.

North and South Korea pepper each other’s territorial waters with artillery shells in the latest show of tensions between the two old enemies.

As a Japanese man is released after 48 years on death row – a new report shows that publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 per cent in 2013.

Ahead of a detailed UN report on human rights in North Korea. Amnesty International releases a video of former prisoners and guards describing the extreme suffering in Kim Jong-un’s gulags.

The horrific brutality of life in North Korea is laid bare in a UN report, which describes how the state maintains a climate of fear through executions, enforced disappearances and starvation.

Ambassador Christopher Hill tells Channel 4 News a UN report detailing grave human rights abuses in North Korea will not have much effect in the immediate future.

A day after singing Happy Birthday to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, former NBA star Dennis Rodman apologies for his comments about captive US missionary Kenneth Bae.

The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un had his uncle torn apart by hungry dogs after deciding to execute him for treason, a report from China claims.

The North Korean dictator has harsh words for his executed uncle in a New Year message. But a conciliatory message for South Korea and the promise of more skiing resorts for his people.

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