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Korean band of robbers put on trial in Wonsan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A band of robbers operating in Wonsan, Kangwon Province, was recently arrested and put on public trial in early April, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEarlier this month, a group of three men were put on public trial at the Sinhung Market in Wonsan after they were arrested for robbery,\u201d a source in Kangwon Province told Daily NK on Apr. 30, speaking on condition of anonymity. \u201cTwo of the men were discharged from the military last spring, and the third is a student at Wonsan Agricultural University.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two former soldiers met each other after they were discharged and found themselves in dire financial straits, both seeking more lucrative work outside of their state-assigned places of employment. The student, who was in his second-year at Wonsan Agricultural University, met the other two while looking for a way to pay his school fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United by their common circumstances, the three men first agreed to work together to earn money, eventually turning to theft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting in November 2023, they would go around to their neighbors\u2019 houses and steal anything that looked to be of value. Then, in January, they began to break into houses wearing masks and demand money from the occupants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many Wonsan residents were frightened once rumors of the band of robbers began to circulate, and the municipal branch of the country\u2019s national police agency, the Ministry of Social Security, made a concerted effort to catch them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, at the beginning of April, one of the three men broke into a house and successfully stole USD 700 and KPW 2,000,000 (approximately USD 154), but was arrested when the victim called the police, which dispatched a nearby officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the Ministry of Social Security looked into the case, it discovered the identities and addresses of his two accomplices, and immediately arrested them. The ministry found that the three men had committed dozens of similar crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the three men were publicly tried at the market in Sinhung in early April. The market is known to be an occasional site for public trials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the former soldiers was found to be the trio\u2019s leader and was sentenced to three years of reform through labor. The other two were sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the source explained that the people who had witnessed the trial expressed more discontent with the government than the robbers themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere were some that expressed sadness that men who had sacrificed their youth to the military and a college student felt that they had no other choice but to turn to theft to survive,\u201d the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some pointed out that if the men\u2019s lives had been more stable, they would not have become thieves. Because their crimes were born of poverty, they feel that the state should also be held responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRecently, trials for those who have committed burglary or theft have been on the rise, and if the lives of ordinary people don\u2019t improve, then these kinds of incidents will only become more common,\u201d the source said. \u201cDespite this, the state has not developed any measures to address the underlying causes of these incidents, opting to merely raise awareness and impose criminal penalties on the perpetrators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Audrey Gregg. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources living in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous for security reasons. For more information about Daily NK\u2019s network of reporting partners and information-gathering activities, please visit our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20240430-2\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A band of robbers operating in Wonsan, Kangwon Province, was recently arrested and put on public trial in early April, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cEarlier this month, a group of three men were put on public trial at the Sinhung Market in Wonsan after they were arrested for robbery,\u201d a source in Kangwon Province told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":51583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[100,295,691,709,756,791,848,972,1063,1203],"class_list":["post-59336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-markets","tag-crime","tag-military","tag-poverty","tag-kangwon-province","tag-police","tag-wonsan","tag-finance","tag-rumors","tag-ministry-of-social-security"],"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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