{"id":52476,"date":"2022-08-03T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52476"},"modified":"2022-08-03T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T01:25:50","slug":"north-korea-still-carrying-out-secret-executions-of-alleged-spies-other-convicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-still-carrying-out-secret-executions-of-alleged-spies-other-convicts\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea is still carrying out secret executions of alleged spies, other convicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security is still carrying out secret executions of people involved in espionage or other \u201cspecial crimes,\u201d Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that four individuals in the city of Hoeryong were executed outside of the public eye by the Ministry of State Security last month. Most of the executed individuals were charged with espionage or involvement in special crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA couple of people have been secretly executed each week this year at the Ministry of State Security\u2019s detention center in Hoeryong. The criminals are being executed by details of two, consisting of a corrections officer under the lead of an investigator from the municipal branch of the ministry,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Significantly, most of the people sentenced to death are placed in solitary confinement. The measure is aimed at keeping the secret executions as confidential as possible, the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the corrections officers at the ministry who have been assigned to the execution details are suffering from nightmares driven by feelings of guilt and terror, the source further reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne corrections officer with the ministry\u2019s branch in Chongjin has trouble sleeping because of the people he\u2019s killed. Others haven\u2019t been able to eat a decent meal in days and are having hallucinations about their victims coming back to kill them,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, a former interrogator and corrections officer for the ministry in Musan County offered the following reflections: \u201cAfter killing someone, I was never in my right mind. When I was assigned to conduct a secret execution, I\u2019d have a stiff drink before doing the job, but I\u2019d still feel nauseated afterward and would be horrified about what I\u2019d done. I often felt the urge to run away from it all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of those factors, the corrections officers who are assigned to execution details are rotated out every three months, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn a world where people\u2019s lives are treated as worthless, there\u2019s nothing unusual about criminals being killed in prison. But strict measures are taken to carry out [the executions] in the utmost secrecy so that news doesn\u2019t leak to the outside,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s secret executions are designed to prop up the regime and cement its control over the populace. Faced with international stigma due to its human rights record, the government appears to be decreasing the frequency of public executions; however, it appears likely that the regime will keep carrying out executions behind closed doors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220801-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security is still carrying out secret executions of people involved in espionage or other \u201cspecial crimes,\u201d Daily NK has learned. A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that four individuals in the city of Hoeryong were executed outside of the public eye by the Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":50420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[773,1439],"class_list":["post-52476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-north-hamgyong-province","tag-hoeryong"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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