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Camp Casey (Korean: 캠프 케이시) is a U.S. military base in Dongducheon (also sometimes spelled Tongduchŏn or TDC), South Korea, 40 miles (64 km) north of Seoul, South Korea. Camp Casey was named in 1952 after Major Hugh Boyd Casey , who was killed in a plane crash near the camp site during the Korean War.
The first incident occurred on August 14, 1965. The Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) claimed Do Ye-jong (도예종, 都禮鐘), Yang Choon-woo (양춘우, 楊春遇), Park Hyun-chae (박현채) and ten other individuals organized the People's Revolutionary Party .
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in South Korea. As of August 2023, there were 59 people on death row in South Korea. [1] The method of execution is hanging. However, there has been an informal moratorium on executions since President Kim Dae-jung took office in 1998. There have been no executions in the country since December 1997.
December 21, 2017: A North Korean soldier crossed the DMZ to defect to South Korea. 40 minutes later shots were fired on the North Korean side of the DMZ, though the defector was not fired upon. [76] August 12, 2018: A South Korean citizen was arrested for attempting to illegally enter North Korea.
24 May 2017 [130] Yong Kar Mun and another unnamed man armed robbery / murder: hanging: C Maldives: none since independence on 26 July 1965 [4] A Mongolia: 2008 [131] [132] D Myanmar: 23 September 2024 [133] Maung Kaung Htet and Chan Myae Thu terrorism: hanging: A Nepal: 1979 [134] D North Korea: August 2024 [135] 20-30 party officials ...
Despite prostitution being illegal in South Korea, camp towns were still practically exempted from crackdowns. [98] In 2011, the Eighth Army founded the Prevention of Sexual Assault Task Force; the task force assessed and reported the climate in South Korea regarding sexual assault among U.S. soldiers. [99]
Camp Nimble was a US military facility located in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, across the Chuncheon River from Camp Casey. Closed and returned in July 2006, it was home to the 2nd Infantry Division's A and B Companies of the 702nd Main Support Battalion .
The countries in the Americas that most recently abolished the death penalty are Suriname (2015), Argentina (2009), and Bolivia (2009). Guatemala abolished the death penalty for civil cases in 2017. Executions in the Americas in 2019: United States (22). [151]