Lina Yoon Human Rights Watch

Lina Yoon is a senior researcher at the Asia division focused on the Korean peninsula, mostly North Korea. Her research focuses on the North Korean government’s endemic and widespread rights violations, including arbitrary detentions, lack of due process, torture, forced labor, and discrimination against at-risk groups including women, children, and people with low socio-economic and political status. In addition, Yoon has worked on international advocacy campaigns to create paths for accountability for victims of human rights violations.

China urged to stop forcibly returning North Korean defectors

Mum and son starve to death after she's sentenced for breaking Covid laws in North Korea - World News - Mirror Online

A decade later, North Korea under Kim Jong Un is even more isolated and oppressed - Los Angeles Times

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North Korea's acute food shortages can lead to mass starvation, deaths

Excessive': North Korea's COVID curbs blamed for food crisis, Business and Economy News

North Koreans Starving To Death After 3 Years of Covid Isolation: Report

Fellows Program – World Affairs Council

North Korea in a sudden shock Covid crisis - Asia Times

Jacinda Ardern's post-pandemic burnout and fighting Covid in China with canned peaches - Coda Story

Online sex crimes crisis in South Korea affecting all women, report finds, South Korea

Analysis: N. Korea's food shortage is about to get worse