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Understand North Korea. Help free its people.
One place for the map, the military picture, the history, and the groups doing the work, plus clear things you can do today. The regime survives on keeping its people in the dark and everyone else uninterested. This site is for fixing both.
Do something in the next 10 minutes
Mail your old USB drives
They get wiped, loaded with films and news, and smuggled into North Korea. 140,000+ so far.
$3,000 = one personFund a rescue
Liberty in North Korea has brought 1,400+ people from China to safety. Any amount counts toward the next one.
ContextKnow what changed in 2025
Radio Free Asia’s Korean service closed and many groups lost funding. The pipeline into the country is at its weakest in years.
Explore
Intel map →
Camps, 190+ detention sites, missile bases, markets and 3,600 documented abuses by county.
People →
The Kim family tree and the officials who run the country, with sources and sanctions.
Military capability →
Troops, nukes, missiles, artillery, cyber theft, and the war in Ukraine.
Missile tests →
Every missile and space launch since 1984 with flight paths and outcomes.
Organizations →
Who is actually doing the work in 2026, what they do, and how to help each one.
Library →
Escapee memoirs, documentaries, UN reports, regime sources and open data.
Learn →
Straight answers: can North Korea be freed, how people escape, what the camps are.
Questions people ask
- How can North Korea be freed?Five ways the regime could end or open up, how likely each one is, and which ones ordinary people can actually push on.
- Is it possible to free North Korea?Why the regime has lasted since 1948, the cracks that are already there, and what history says about "permanent" dictatorships.
- How to help North Korean peopleConcrete things that work, with costs. Rescues, USB drives, tutoring escapees, documentation, and pressure on governments.
- How North Koreans escapeThe river crossing, hiding in China, the 3,000-mile route to Southeast Asia, and why only 224 people made it in 2025.
- North Korea's prison campsThe kwanliso system: where the camps are, why whole families end up inside, and what satellite imagery and survivors show.
- How outside information gets into North KoreaUSB drives, SD cards, shortwave radio and balloons. What still works after the 2025 cuts, and how to support it.
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Everything here is open source. If you can code, map, translate Korean, or just spot a wrong fact, you can help make this the reference people find when they search for North Korea.
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