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.

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Fat-Shaming, North Korea Style

Kim Jong Un's crackdowns leave North Korean defectors with little hope - The Japan Times

WHO concerned about 'worrying' N Korean Covid outbreak

Reports of people 'starving' as N Korea struggles to feed itself, Food News

North Korean military ramps up Covid response as outbreak grows - Times of India

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

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

North Korea used Covid-19 lockdown to fortify northern border

North Korea Covid-19 Surge Accelerates as Unvaccinated Population Keeps Working - WSJ

North Korea: How the pandemic has helped Kim Jong-Un tighten control of an unvaccinated and starving nation

How North Korea is trying to keep citizens from defecting

South Korea Investigates Forcible Return of Two North Koreans [EN/KO] - Republic of Korea

China Forcibly Returns More than 500 to North Korea

Lina Yoon - Senior Researcher - Human Rights Watch