North Korea is the most restrictive country in the world, the government tightening control of its citizens, intensifying surveillance and releasing propaganda torrents, according to a radical United Nations reports published on Friday.
The 14 -page report, published by the United Nations Human Rights Office, has covered developments in the country since 2014 and draws the details of the interviews with more than 300 witnesses and victims who had left the country.
The people interviewed said that government control had infiltrated “all parts of life,” said the report.
“To block the eyes and ears of the people, they strengthened repressions. It was a form of control aimed at eliminating even the smallest signs of dissatisfaction or complaint,” said an esccaee, according to the report.
The death penalty is “more broadly authorized by law and implemented in practice”, according to the report. State policies have exacerbated the food shortage. Access to information is more limited than ten years ago, with new severe sanctions, including the death penalty for acts, including sharing foreign media. Forced work has increased and people are less able to stimulate their path of arbitrary sanctions.
The report has also listed some improvements, including strengthening provisional guarantees and increased commitment to international human rights bodies.
The North Korean government told investigators that he had rejected the resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council who authorized the report.
RFA Korean reports earlier this year have detailed some of the circumstances described in the report. In May, sources told RFA that the North Korean authorities had distributed high-performance radio signal detectors to border security agents in order to prevent residents from making phone calls to South Korea.
The supply shortages and the rise in power made that some residents had to carry a backpack full of money just to shop, RFA Korean reported in April. In March, the residents said that the North Korean soldiers were so short of money that they sold their equipment to buy food.
In May, two North Korean escapes described for the experiences of the United Nations General Assembly such as watching family members die of famine or seeing friends executed publicly for having watched and shared South Korean dramas.
The increase in government controls would have been the source of a sharp drop in defections last year, according to a United Nations report in March.
Includes Reuters’ reports.