Ratified conventions by North Korea
- 1957 - 1st Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 1957 - 2nd Geneva Convention For the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 1957 - 3rd Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 1957 - 4th Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war
- 1981 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 1981 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1984 - Convention on the non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes
- 1988 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
- 1989 - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- 1990 - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 2014 - Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography