The scale of human rights issues in North Korea (NK) is large;including workers’ rights;freedoms of expression;religion;movement;access to food;public executions;massive prison camps;abductions;secret trials;torture;and sexual violence. Experts have called these violations the worst in the world;and they have been condemned by many international human rights investigations. What can be done to better address this situation? The main questions of this research are;how this human rights situation can be raised in global consciousness so more pressure is brought to bear on it;how applied anthropology can help;and how education can play a positive role in helping to bring attention to the issue. First;the paper reviews seminal anthropology and social science perspectives on human rights;new concepts of global and collective rights;anthropology and globalization;and their relevance for the North Korean case. Next;the paper explores the rights issues of the global NK diaspora;and anthropological research on NK human rights;including migration;gender;religion and famine. Third;the paper reviews the historic roles of anthropology in human rights;current opportunities for anthropology in NK human rights activism through education and university-based research;visual ethnography;film;documentation of human rights issues;and exciting examples of activism by students;global NGO networks;and anthropology activists/advocates on this and related issues. The paper finds that anthropological concepts are useful to help spread awareness that the NK human rights situation;the worst in the world;is now global in scope;and that anthropological research on the issue is broad;detailed;and has a key role in documenting the situation and mobilizing significant action and activism for it. Global activism of a persistent;long-term nature;coupled with key anthropological input;can accomplish much. Just as the Soviet Union eventually freed its Jews to emigrate;the nightmare of North Korea’s human rights will eventually end.