{"id":31105,"date":"2015-07-02T17:42:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=31105"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:51:35","slug":"report-reveals-app-1382-n-koreans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/report-reveals-app-1382-n-koreans\/","title":{"rendered":"Report reveals app. 1,382 N. Koreans publicly executed since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since 2000, approximately 1,382 North Korean<br \/>\nresidents have been publicly executed , according to<br \/>\na recent white paper on human rights in North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">According to the report, published by the Korean Institute for National Unification<br \/>\n(KINU), this Wednesday, 1,382 North Koreans were publicly executed between 2000<br \/>\nand 2014. This figure is an estimate based on in-depth personal interviews with<br \/>\nNorth Korean escapees who came to South Korea between 2008 and 2014, at a rate<br \/>\nof approximately 200-250 defectors per year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The white paper further revealed that the<br \/>\nnumber of public executions has been gradually decreasing each year after<br \/>\npeaking at 161 people in 2008 and then dropping to 160 people in 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the Kim Jong Un era, 21 people were<br \/>\npublicly executed in 2012; 82 in 2013. These figures were confirmed by witnesses.&nbsp;<\/span>According to these witness testimonies, public<br \/>\nexecutions for watching or distributing South Korean media and drug smuggling<br \/>\nhave been particularly numerable in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Since 1996, KINU has been publishing an<br \/>\nannual version of this report in Korean and English. This year\u2019s statistics<br \/>\nregarding public executions were based on testimonies of 221 North Korean defectors, selected based on<br \/>\ndemographics and background, of the total 1,396 escapees who came to South Korea last<br \/>\nyear.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2000, approximately 1,382 North Korean residents have been publicly executed , according to a recent white paper on human rights in North Korea. 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