North Korea’s Slavery and Oppression Targeted in New Report

Laborers work on in Pyongyang on July 29, 2013. North Korea’s widespread use of slave labor is targeted in the State Department's latest report on the regime’s abuses of North Koreans. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

The names of North Korea’s various agencies and ministries take on an Orwellian bent in the State Department’s latest biannual report, released Oct. 26.

Every six months the secretary of state has to report to Congress on individuals and activities that seriously violate the basic rights of North Koreans.