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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]
Kin punishment is the practice of punishing the family members of someone who is accused of committing a crime, either in place of or in addition to the perpetrator of the crime. It refers to the principle in which a family shares responsibility for a crime which is committed by one of its members, and it is a form of collective punishment .
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.
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]
In North Korea, political crimes are greatly varied, from border crossing to any disturbance of the political order, and they are rigorously punished. [37] Due to the dire prison conditions with hunger and torture, [ 38 ] a large percentage of prisoners do not survive their sentence terms.
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.
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 ...