Cyber slavery rings are growing across the region, trapping young jobseekers in brutal scam compounds — and fueling a global ...

Events on June 25 will mark the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, but the truth is that the US was a willing ...

At the time, many observers remained skeptical, viewing the remarks as little more than diplomatic niceties. Yet, in pledging ...

Groups from Korea and Japan called for the Japanese government and businesses that profited from forced Korean labor to ...

Japan and South Korea are marking the 60th anniversary of the normalisation of their diplomatic relations Sunday. The two ...

Executions, forced labour and starvation persist in North Korea, UN official says Increased repression post-pandemic in the isolated country, says human rights expert Maroosha Muzaffar ...

Family members of persons abducted from the Republic of Korea and Japan described the agony they endured ever since the enforced disappearance of their loved ones at the hands of agents of the ...

A decade after a landmark UN report found North Korea guilty of crimes against humanity, many abuses continue, a UN official has said. James Heenan, the UN human rights official, said that while North ...

James D.J. Brown is professor of political science at Temple University, Japan Campus. On June 3, Lee Jae Myung of South Korea's left-leaning Democratic Party was elected president in a landslide ...