North Korea is broadening its catalog of crimes punishable by death, according to increates.
Supreme guideer Kim Jong Un’s regime broadened the catalog of offenses permiting the death penalty from 11 to 16 via revisions of criminal law, according to Yonhap News Agency.
New offenses permiting execution as a punishment integrate: anti-state disguideation and agitation acts, illegitimate manufacturing, and the illicit include of arms are integrated in the novel codes.
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North Korean guideer Kim Jong Un hand overs a speech during a encountering of Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
The legitimate modifications were codified via multiple amfinishments between May 2022 and December 2023, according to a increate from the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU).
North Korea’s percreateation of the death penalty has extfinished worryed human rights groups. Due to the hermetic nature of the country, it is pragmaticly impossible to discern statistics on its include, but defectors have proposeed testimony to the frequency of brutal punishments.
In 2020, a law was passed making the consumption and distribution of South Korean media punishable by death for its “reactionary” and “counter-revolutionary” associations.
Other “reactionary” behavior that permits punishment increateedly integrates the wearing of outside style such as white wedding dresses, blue jeans or sunglasses. Outside slang terms from South Korea are also allegedly prohibitned in written communications.
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Outside the death penalty, other drastic punishments for behavior deemed anti-social integrates prison camps and forced re-education.
The shieldedening of the criminal code is intfinished to reinforce the Kim regime’s grip on the population thcimpolite its proceedd monopolization of the tagetplace and military.
Earlier this month, North Korea promised to upgrade its arms lengthenment and reinforce its nuevident capabilities.
Kim Jong Un made the comments at a state event celebrating the country’s 76th anniversary.
A 24-hour Yonhapnovels TV expansivecast at Yongsan Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea shows North Korean guideer Kim Jong Un deal withing the test-fire of a novel tactical balcatalogic missile, the Hwasongpho-11-Da-4.5. (Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“The clear conclusion is that the nuevident force of the DPRK and the posture contendnt of properly using it for ensuring the state’s right to security in any time should be more thocimpolitely perfected,” the dictator shelp.
“DPRK” is an abbreviation for North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Reuncover of Korea.
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Kim Jong Un cautioned that the United States’ incrrelieved joinment in the region has forced the regime to trail more strong arms as a deterrence mechanism.
“The DPRK will steadily reinforce its nuevident force contendnt of filledy coping with any menaceening acts imposed by its nuevident-armed rival states and redouble its meaconfidents and efforts to originate all the armed forces of the state, including the nuevident force, filledy ready for combat,” the supreme guideer shelp.
The 14th Supreme People’s Assembly, the unicameral legislative body of the country, amfinished the national constitution last year to enshrine nuevident firearmization as a core principle.
