U.S. commission calls for N. Korea to stay on religious freedom blacklist
An independent U.S. government commission has asked the State Department to keep North Korea on its blacklist of countries that repress freedom of religion, citing Pyongyang’s “systematic” and “egregious” human rights violations. In an annual report recently disclosed on its website, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended maintaining the North as a […]