O PCP e a Coreia do Norte: cartoon de António no "Expresso"

Porque é que tem tanta dificuldade em admitir que não há uma democracia na Coreia do Norte?O problema não é esse. O que é a democracia? Primeiro tínhamos de discutir o que é a democracia.

Cartoon de António

"North Korea: Sexual Violence Against Women by Officials"

Impunity for Assault and Rape by Men in Power

"A Divided Germany Came Together for the Olympics Decades Before Korea Did - Erin Blakemore

At the opening ceremonies of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, on February 9, 2018, something spectacular happened: Athletes from North and South Korea, which have been bitterly divided for 73 years, marched beneath a unified flag. Though North and South appear no closer to reunification, the move was seen as an olive branch of sorts that could pave the way for better relations between the estranged countries—and it’s just one example of how the worldwide sporting event can bring people together, if only for a few weeks.

"A Winter Thaw on the Korean Peninsula" - Javier Solana

Throughout the history of the modern Olympic Games, the event has served as a platform for nationalism, but also for advancing peace and human dignity in the spirit of friendly competition. When the Games begin next month on the tumultuous Korean Peninsula, one hopes the legacy of peacemaking and rapprochement prevails.

"North Korea’s prisons are as bad as Nazi camps, says judge who survived Auschwitz"

North Korea’s political prisons are just as bad as — and perhaps even worse than — the Nazi concentration camps of the Holocaust, a renowned judge and Auschwitz survivor has concluded after hearing from former North Korean prisoners and guards.

"The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea" - Evan Osnos

On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?

Liberty in North Korea

North Korea - World report 2017 Human Rights Watch

North Korea remains one of the most repressive authoritarian states in the world, ruled for seven decades by the Kim family and the Worker’s Party of Korea. During his fifth year in power, Kim Jong-Un continued to generate fearful obedience by using public executions, arbitrary detention, and forced labor; tightening travel restrictions to prevent North Koreans from escaping and seeking refuge overseas; and systematically persecuting those with religious contacts inside and outside the country.

"Extraordinarily Dangerous: Chomsky on How Trump's Threats Toward N. Korea Could Backfire"

President Trump will be meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago. Ahead of the meeting, Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times he would be willing to take unilateral action against North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. Trump said, "If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will." His warnings come after the U.S. and the South Korean militaries staged weeks-long training drills throughout March, while North Korea launched rocket engine and missile tests. For more, we speak with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky.

"Defectors lift curtain on North Korea’s information blackout"

"Can Smuggled TV Shows Change North Korea?" - Jieun Baek

Last summer, I had breakfast with a teenager who had just completed a crash course that seeks to help North Korean defectors adapt to their new lives in the South. As a poor orphan in North Korea, he survived harsh winters by smuggling foreign films across the frozen Tumen River. He would stuff cash into women’s stockings and hurl them across narrow parts of the river. On the other side, his Chinese counterparts would fill up the stockings with DVDs and thumb drives and slide them back.

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Yeonmi Park

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José Luís Peixoto

"Kimjongilia" - um documentário a não perder sobre a Coreia do Norte

Realização de NC Heikin

"North Korean defector wins Human Rights Watch award"

Shin Dong-hyuk, a North Korean defector born in a prison camp, has been selected as a winner of the Human Rights Watch’s annual award for his efforts to promote awareness of the North’s horrific human rights situation, the group said Tuesday.

Shin was named one of four recipients of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, along with Father Bernard Kinvi from the Central African Republic, Arwa Othman from Yemen, and Dr. M.R. Rajagopal from India, the group said in a release.

"Stories of Atrocities in North Korea"

A new United Nations report has found that crimes against humanity are occurring in North Korea and calls for an international tribunal to investigate and hold perpetrators to account.This shocking report should open the eyes of the UN Security Council to the atrocities that plague the people of North Korea and threaten stability in the region. By focusing only on the nuclear threat in North Korea, the Security Council is overlooking the crimes of North Korean leaders who have overseen a brutal system of gulags, public executions, disappearances, and mass starvation.

Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

"New satellite images show scale of North Korea’s repressive prison camps"

North Korea’s vast infrastructure of repression is further exposed in new satellite images showing the on-going development of two of the country’s largest political prison camps.

In a comprehensive assessments of camps 15 and 16 - known as kwanliso - Amnesty International found new housing blocks, an expansion of production facilities, and continued tight security.

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Enquanto o povo morre de fome... "Son of Former Korean President Obtained Secret Offshore Company Amid Family’s Tax Evasion Scandal"

‘Offshore Leaks’ records show oldest son of South Korea’s former president Chun Doo-hwan had British Virgin Islands company.

A fome na Coreia do Norte chega ao canibalismo - Sem palavras!

Reports from inside the secretive famine-hit pariah state, North Korea, claim a man has been executed after murdering his two children for food.

Sites a não perder - "One Free Korea"

North Korea