RSF urges authorities to allow international news media to report from Ryongchon
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF is disturbed by the North Korean authorities' refusal to allow journalists to report from the scene of the explosion of two trains at the train station in Ryongchon.
View ArticleRSF fact-finding mission issues press freedom survey
(RSF/IFEX) - The following is a 22 October 2004 RSF statement:
View ArticleNORTH KOREA RANKED WORLD'S WORST COUNTRY FOR JOURNALISTS
It is no accident that Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) has ranked North Korea as the world's worst country for journalists for the past three years. In a country whose...
View ArticleSouth Korean authorities block access to about 30 North Korean propaganda...
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has criticised South Korea for blocking access to about 30 North Korean propaganda websites. The organisation appealed for the week-old ban to be lifted in the name of free expression....
View ArticlePyongyang threatens independent radio stations run by exiles
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned threats by North Korea's officials against the independent radio stations based in South Korea or the United States that broadcast programmes for...
View ArticleRegime jams foreign-based radio stations again
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has deplored the North Korean government's resumption on 11 May 2007 of its jamming of independent and dissident radio stations broadcasting in Korean from...
View ArticleNo information on army colonel arrested more than two years ago for filming...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders calls on the North Korean authorities to release information about the fate of Col. Kim Sung Chul, an army officer who has been held since October 2006 when he...
View ArticleU.S. journalists Laura Ling, Euna Lee and local guide reportedly detained by...
(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:
View ArticleAmerican cameraman Mitch Koss released; RSF and the International Women's...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders and the International Women's Media Foundation (http:// www.iwmf.org ) have launched a joint petition calling for the immediate and unconditional release of...
View ArticleTwo US journalists could face up to 10 years in labour camp if convicted of...
(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 1 April 2009 IFJ media release:
View ArticleNorth Korea will try American journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, April 24, 2009 - The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today after North Korea announced that it would try American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee on...
View ArticleFamilies of journalists Ling, Lee urge talks to resolve detentions
CPJ calls on all parties to pursue diplomatic efforts to gain the release of detained U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who are facing trial in North Korea this week.
View ArticleForty IFEX members appeal for diplomatic support in detained journalists' case
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway, at the IFEX General Meeting. Forty IFEX members signed on to a letter calling on the international community to press...
View ArticleJournalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling sentenced to 12 years of hard labour
The Central Court of the DPRK found the two San Francisco-based Current TV journalists guilty of entering the country illegally and carrying out "hostile acts" on March 17.
View ArticleU.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labour
U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labour in North Korea after a closed-door trial from 4 to 8 June, report the International Federation of Journalists...
View ArticleGovernment should grant amnesty to Ling and Lee, says CPJ
North Korea should grant amnesty to U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have now been jailed four months, CPJ said.
View ArticleKim Jong-il orders release of U.S. journalists
CPJ welcomes media reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pardoned and ordered the release of imprisoned journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
View ArticleBill Clinton returns to U.S. with pardoned journalists
IFEX members the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomed last week's release of U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura...
View ArticleRSF calls for greater support for exiled journalists as director of Free...
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy said Kim Seong-Min was being awarded the prize for his "courageous defiance" of the North Korean regime.
View ArticleNorth Korean journalist wins human rights award
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is honouring exiled North Korean journalist Kim Seong-Min with its 2009 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award. Seong-Min is the founder and director of Free North...
View ArticleMany journalists still held in prison camps
A former North Korean political prisoner has told Reporters Without Borders (RSF) that two North Korean journalists died in a prison camp in the north-eastern part of the county in 2001. Several...
View ArticlePanel participants highlight challenges of reporting on closed society
In a discussion at the IPI's World Congress, three journalists each provided different explanations of the same event, showing how information from North Korea is often tangential and unverifiable, and...
View ArticleRSF releases report on freedom of information under Kim Jong-il regime
Foreign radio stations continue to be the main source of independent information for the population.
View ArticleRSF surveys increasing clandestine news networks and info-sharing tactics
An ever-porous information border around North Korea has allowed Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to put together a comprehensive report on the media situation in the world's most repressive dictatorship.
View ArticleA leading press freedom predator dies
The death of Kim Jong-il turns attention to his declared successor, Kim Jong-un, whose policies on basic freedoms remain unknown.
View ArticleSigns of change in North Korea
CPJ has found that cracks in the North's information wall are beginning to appear.
View ArticleNorth Koreans' right to freedom of information and expression severely...
North Koreans are arrested and punished for ordinary actions that would be considered within anyone's rights in a democratic society, among them using mobile phones to call overseas, and selling or...
View ArticleNorth Korea is deleting history
North Korea has expanded its deletion of a few hundred online articles mentioning Jang Song Thaek, the executed uncle of Kim Jong Un, to all articles on state media up to October 2013, numbering in the...
View ArticleUN urged to act on North Korean atrocities report
A new UN report has found that crimes against humanity are occurring in North Korea, noting in particular "a systematic and widespread attack against all populations that are considered to pose a...
View ArticleNorth Korea exposed: Censorship in the world's most secretive state
North Korea is one of the most opaque countries in the world. The assaults on freedom of expression are vast and varied in the military state, ranging from censorship of the media to suppression of...
View ArticleFor defectors, getting out of North Korea is only part of the problem
An inside look into the often forgotten struggles of those who have escaped the brutal regime of North Korea and what one non-governmental group is doing to help them.
View ArticleThe secret group that "controls everything" in North Korea
North Korea seeks to monopolise all information flows and uses incredible psychological and emotional force to ensure its citizens' loyalty, explains a high-ranking defector.
View ArticleNorth Korea: UN condemns crimes against humanity
The United Nations Security Council should act on a historic General Assembly resolution by referring the situation in North Korea to the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch said.
View ArticleNothing to celebrate in North Korea on leader's birthday
Birthday celebrations planned on 8 January 2015 for North Korea's dynastic supreme leader Kim Jong-Un contrast sharply with severe human rights violations throughout the country, Human Rights Watch said.
View ArticleReinforcing "the mosquito net": Blocking the flow of people and information
Authorities are cracking down on people fleeing the country, and on those who share information with the outside world.
View ArticleNorth Korea sentences South Korean journalists to death in absentia
North Korea's central court has passed a death sentence in absentia on four South Korean journalists for writing positive reviews of an "insulting" book about North Korea's growing market economy.
View ArticleNorth Korea: No improvements in basic freedoms despite diplomatic opening
North Korea remains one of the world's most repressive states despite recent diplomatic openings with South Korea, the United States, and other countries. Human Rights Watch is urging the world to...
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