Types of Minorities and Their Living Conditions within North Korea

It is quite natural to see minorities where people are gathered to live. North Korea is no exception. Nevertheless, the North Korean government emphasizes that in North Korea where there is “nothing to envy in the world”, no one is discriminated unless one is “an enemy who cannot live under the sky (heaven)”. But is it?
This paper aims to classify the types of minorities within North Korea and look at their living conditions. The basic materials used in proceeding the research are interviews of the North Korean defectors since September 2010 to the present and publication materials issued by the North Korean government.
There are various types of minorities in North Korea. But this article is going to review some major types of minorties in North Korea and how they are make their everyday lives. Those types are as follows: Persons with no value, those disabled, Repatriated Korean residents from Japan and the outsiders.
By reviewing the types of minorities and their living conditions there, this article aims to understand the internal structure of social class within North Korea.