{"id":54934,"date":"2023-05-09T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54934"},"modified":"2023-05-09T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T01:40:18","slug":"trio-north-korean-thieves-sentenced-reform-through-labor-robbery-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/trio-north-korean-thieves-sentenced-reform-through-labor-robbery-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of N. Korean thieves sentenced to reform through labor for robbery spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three thieves were sentenced to reform through labor at a public trial held in Hamhung last month, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a reporting partner in South Hamgyong Province told Daily NK last Thursday that the trio, who are all in their 30s, had been involved in a spree of robberies since March of last year. They were turned over for trial after being arrested while engaged in a theft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The men had usually burglarized empty homes during the day, but also unhesitatingly barged into the homes of elderly people living alone to take their belongings in broad daylight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the thieves came to a house that was occupied, the thieves would trick the occupant into letting them in by pretending to be salesmen or electricity inspectors. After entering the home, they would use drugs to put the person to sleep before stealing their belongings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt first, they pretended to be traveling salesmen, but when more and more people stopped opening the door for them, they began disguising themselves as electricity inspectors starting in February,\u201d said the reporting partner. \u201cPeople are so used to facing several inspections a day that they suspected nothing and opened their doors, only to have their homes robbed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities currently carry out several electricity inspections a day, a fact the trio took advantage of to carry out their crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rumors began spreading through Hamhung about the men who carried out thefts of homes, be them occupied or empty, amplifying the anxiety of locals already dealing with hardship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>HAMHUNG POLICE LAUNCH OPERATION TO CATCH THE THIEVES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hamhung police then launched a sweeping operation to arrest the thieves and the trio was caught in the act in early April.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After being interrogated for about 10 days, the thieves were given a public trial at a square in Hamhung in mid-April in front of a large number of workers and young people. The trio received sentences of reform through labor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe recent increase in behavior causing social disorder such as theft and assault has led the local police to keep an eye out for criminal activity, and the trio seems to have been subjected to a public trial due to the particularly bad nature of their crimes,\u201d said the reporting partner. \u201cThe trio\u2019s lookout got three years of forced labor, while the two who actually did the robbing got five years of forced labor.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Article 283 of North Korea\u2019s criminal code, \u201cA person who steals personal property shall be sentenced to a term of short-term labor of less than one year. In cases where a person has stolen a large amount of personal property, he or she shall be sentenced to a term of reform through labor of less than three years. In cases where a person has stolen a particularly large amount of personal property, he or she shall be sentenced to a term of reform through labor of more than three years and less than eight years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner opined that \u201cpeople who witnessed the public trial said young people wouldn\u2019t get together to commit crimes if life weren\u2019t so tough, and that the criminals wouldn\u2019t have disguised themselves as inspectors if the authorities weren\u2019t carrying out so many inspections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of reporting partners who live inside North Korea and China. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230504-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three thieves were sentenced to reform through labor at a public trial held in Hamhung last month, Daily NK has learned. 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