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This punishment entailed the execution of all the close and extended kin of the individual, categorized into nine groups: four generations of the paternal line, three from the maternal line, and two from the wife's. In the case of Confucian scholar Fang Xiaoru, his students and peers were uniquely included as a tenth group. [citation needed]
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 nine familial exterminations, nine kinship exterminations, or execution of nine relations, also known by the names zuzhu ("family execution") and miezu ("family extermination"), was the most severe punishment for a capital offense in premodern China, Korea, and Vietnam.
South Korea's president took office hoping to engage diplomatically with North Korea, but as tensions soar, he's considering his offensive options.
According to former guards who have defected from North Korea, in the event of the Kim Family Regime's collapse or in the event of another crisis in North Korea, they were ordered to kill all political prisoners. The immediate murder of approximately 120,000 North Korean political prisoners would constitute a genocide. [23] [citation not found]
People in North Korea suffer political repression throughout their daily lives, including speech, travel, employment, and religion. The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for three generations and exercises absolute centralised power in the service of the political ideology of Juche and Songun.
Kim, 40, alleged that the US, South Korea and Japan have formed a “nuclear military bloc for aggression” and that the three allies are pushing anti-communism, state media outlet Korean Central ...
Kwalliso (Korean: 관리소, Korean pronunciation: [kwaɭɭisʰo]) or kwan-li-so is the term for political penal labor and rehabilitation colonies in North Korea.They constitute one of three forms of political imprisonment in the country, the other two being what Washington DC–based NGO Committee for Human Rights in North Korea [1] described as "short-term detention/forced-labor centers" [2 ...