North Korean leaders have ordered the executions of their citizens for watching foreign films and television shows, according to a U.N. investigation.

The human rights situation in North Korea has worsened, with people even being executed for distributing foreign movies and ...

Technology has allowed North Korea to increase control of its citizens over the last decade with some being executed for distributing foreign TV programs, according to the United Nations.

Government control over people in the isolated, nuclear-armed state has tightened in the past 10 years, researchers said, and access to information has “significantly regressed.” ...

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found.

The United Nations has released a grim new report exposing how North Korea has tightened control over its citizens’ lives, ...

Rogue despot Kim Jong-Un has stepped up executions of his population for crimes such as watching foreign TV or films and even ...

North Korea has executed people for distributing foreign media, including television shows like popular South Korean dramas, as part of an intensifying crackdown on personal freedoms, a U.N. human ...

North Korean escapees interviewed by the UN Human Rights Office expressed "a clear and strong desire for change".