North Korea is one of the countries that still makes liberal use of capital punishment and convicted criminals can be executed for a wide variety of crimes. On September 3, the South Korean news ...

North Korea, in recent months, has suffered from a significant shortage of food, and now there’s another report of bad news from that country: thousands of dead livestock. According to ...

North Korea employs a system known as “three generations of punishment,” in which the ... Milder punishments include banishment from the capital, Pyongyang, which can end a person’s career ...

The Daily NK, a website run by defectors with sources in North Korea, said that since mid-April, free movement in and out of the capital had been stopped and security personnel summoned from the ...