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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]
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.
The law of North Korea (officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is a codified civil law system inherited from the Japanese and influenced by the Soviet Union. It is governed by The Socialist Constitution and operates within the political system of North Korea.
As the supreme court of North Korea, [1] the Central 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 ...
Crime in North Korea by type (3 C) N. North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens (21 P) North Korean criminals (1 C) P. Prisoners and detainees of North Korea (7 C ...
This is a list of all second-level administrative divisions of North Korea, including cities, counties, workers' districts, districts, and wards, organized by province or directly governed city. Pyongyang Directly Governed City