The North Korean government has intensified repression inside the isolated, nuclear-armed state, expanding electronic surveillance and publicly executing people for sharing foreign media , the United Nations said in a major new report.
“No other population is under such restrictions in today’s world,” said the report , which was released Friday by the U.N. Human Rights Office.
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The 16-page report examined the state of human rights in North Korea since 2014 and came to grim conclusions, describing a totalitarian state that under leader Kim Jong Un has effectively cut off its population of about 26 million from the rest of the world.
“Today, the death penalty is more widely allowed by law and implemented in