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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict the practiced Juche ideology. [1]
The Korea Institute for National Unification's 2014 White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea lists twelve public executions between 2004 and 2010 for the crime of murder. Murder victims included lovers, a spouse, a creditor, and a hospital administrator. [2]
During the Iran–Iraq War, some 90% of arms exports from North Korea went to Iran, and between 1981 and 1989, North Korea earned an estimated $4 billion from arms sales. [38] North Korea has a known track record in proliferating nuclear and missile technology and in 2001, missile sales came to $560 million. [1]
Articles relating to capital punishment in North Korea, the government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.
As the supreme court of North Korea, [1] the Supreme Court it is the highest organ of the judiciary of the country. [2] The Supreme Court is one of the two main components of the post-1945 judicial system, along with the Supreme Procurator's Office of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea . It does not exercise the power of judicial review ...
Over 40 human rights organizations (under the banner of the International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea) [34] [38] and legislators around the world backed the idea. [1] [32] The intent was to broaden the international spotlight on North Korea's nuclear program to human rights. [31] [33] [34]
The persecution of Christians in North Korea is an ongoing and systematic human rights violation in North Korea. [3] [4] [5] According to multiple resolutions which have been passed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the North Korean government considers religious activities political crimes, [6] because they could challenge the personality cult of Kim Il Sung and his family.