Below are links for websites that have information on North Korea and the human rights violations that North Koreans struggle with on a daily basis. 

Amnesty International: North Korea

Amnesty International's long-standing concerns about human rights violations in North Korea include the use of torture and the death penalty, arbitrary detention and imprisonment, inhumane prison conditions and the near-total suppression of fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression and movement.

While these concerns are long-standing, in recent years many human rights abuses in North Korea have been linked directly or indirectly to the famine and acute food shortages which have affected the country since the mid-1990s. These have led to widespread malnutrition among the population and to the movement of hundreds of thousands of people in search of food - some across the border with China - many of whom have become the victims of human rights violations as a result of their search for food and survival.

Chosun Journal

http://chosunjournal.com/index.php

The Chosun Journal is an independent, non-profit site whose agenda is to inform, provoke, and mobilize consciences for human rights in North Korea. We are Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago meets the Drudge Report. We went online February 2001.

Not content with raising awareness, CJ raises funds to rescue N. Korean orphans into safe countries through underground railroads. We network rescuers, refugees, defectors, government officials, intelligentsia, and the media to bring further momentum to the N. Korean human rights movement. We are a resource for academic journals and bestselling books like Natan Sharansky's The Case for Democracy. We host survivors of N. Korean concentration camps to share their testimonies at college campuses and churches. And we organize protests at Chinese embassies; lobby government bodies to pass bills that assist persecuted N. Korean refugees hiding in China; and petition officials to grant leniency to those that are caught seeking asylum.

Human Rights Watch: North Korea
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=asia&c=nkorea

US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
http://www.hrnk.org/

he U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) is a bi-partisan, not-for-profit human rights organization that has obtained 501(c)3 nonprofit status. Launched in 2001, the Committee was created to generate a broad base of interest about conditions in NorthKorea and to conduct and publish research focusing U.S. and world attention on human rights abuse in that country.

The Committee's work is laying a foundation of current and comprehensive information that will enable it to shine a spotlight on the abuses being perpetrated in North Korea, and also to help individuals, NGOs and policymakers seek ways to improve the treatment of the North Korean people. In particular, the Committee is focusing on the prison camp system, the question of access to food, and the plight of North Korean refugee populations.