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35,380 (North Korean claim) North Korea South Korea United States Air Force (North Korean claim) North Korea claims that the U.S. engaged in a large massacre that occurred over a 52 day period in Sinchon, North Korea. [3] [4] Sunchon tunnel massacre: October 1950 Pyongyang 68 North Korea [5] [6] Onsong concentration camp riot massacre May 1987
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]
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]
Today there are six political prison camps in North Korea, with the size determined from satellite images [29] and the number of prisoners estimated by former prisoners and NGOs. [30] [31] Most of the camps are documented in testimonies of former prisoners and, for all of them, coordinates and satellite images are available.
Sinchon Civilian Massacre [1]) was a massacre of civilians between 17 October and 7 December 1950, [1] in or near the town of Sinchon (currently part of South Hwanghae Province, North Korea). North Korean sources claim the massacre was committed by the U.S. military and that 30,000–35,383 people were killed in Sinchon.
Pages in category "Massacres committed by North Korea" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Low-slung buildings, blue huts and somber soldiers dot the border village of Panmunjom inside the DMZ, or demilitarized zone, the swath of land between North and South Korea where a U.S. soldier ...
In May 1953, five major North Korean dams were bombed. According to Charles K. Armstrong, the bombing of these dams and ensuing floods threatened several million North Koreans with starvation, although large-scale famine was averted with emergency aid provided by North Korea's allies. [42]