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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]
North Korea has executed two women who were helping fellow citizens ... to life in prison on similar charges of human trafficking the same day, Jang Se-yul, head of rights group Gyeore’eol ...
North Korean prison camps are of two types: large internment camps for political prisoners (Kwan-li-so in Korean) and reeducation prison camps (Kyo-hwa-so in Korean), as North Korean prisons and re-education camp systems are very strict, food was control and hunger a weapon for re-education, many peasants were ordered to work on agricultural ...
He has since been released and allowed to return to the United States. According to the law of North Korea, such an act is punishable either by a life sentence in prison, or death. [4] In 2016, Otto Warmbier, an American college student, was arrested by North Korean authorities at Pyongyang International Airport, while ready to leave the ...
U.S. court on Monday ordered Pyongyang to pay $501 million in damages for the torture and death U.S. college student Otto Warmbier.
An American soldier who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison, fled across the heavily armed border into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American ...
Illegally entering North Korea [17] Aijalon Gomes: 25 January 2010: 26 August 2010: 213 Illegally entering North Korea [18] Eddie Yong Su Jun: November 2010: 28 May 2011 ~208 "Committing a crime" against North Korea [19] Kenneth Bae: 3 November 2012: 8 November 2014: 735 Unauthorized religious activity [20] [21] [22] Merrill Newman: 26 October ...
A man in South Korea has been sentenced to one year and two months in prison for writing a poem in 2016 praising authoritarian North Korea and breaching a law banning access to the North's ...