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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]
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.
World powers bear responsibility for ignoring crimes against humanity that may still be perpetrated by authorities in North Korea amid a focus on its nuclear programme, a U.N. human rights ...
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.
South Korea's president took office hoping to engage diplomatically with North Korea, but as tensions soar, he's considering his offensive options. South Korea promises 'massive punishment' if ...
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.