A six-month pregnant woman who was seen on camera pointing at the image of Kim II-sung, the pariah state’s founder, while dancing in her house, was allegedly executed by the government of North Korea.
The lengthy 450-page study describes serious violations of North Korea’s human rights, including those related to the rights to life and liberty and freedom from slavery, torture, and other cruel treatment.
Testimony From North Korea
It is based on devastating testimony gathered between 2017 and 2022 from more than 500 North Koreans who escaped their country.
The ministry today made its annual report public for the first time ever in an effort to shed light on the North’s “gruesome” human rights abuses, a step that is sure to anger tyrant Kim Jong-un and his regime.
According to horrifying testimony in today’s report, the dictatorship killed a woman who was six months pregnant.
She was allegedly murdered because she was shown on a widely watched video dancing in her home while pointing at a photo of the late Kim Il-sung.
Further alarming testimony surfaced regarding the shooting deaths of six youths between the ages of 16 and 17.
They allegedly faced charges for viewing South Korean-origin video footage and using opium at a stadium in the Kangwon Province city of Wonsan.
Additionally, it describes how the dictatorship subjected people to experiments, with Ministry of Social Security employees allegedly coercing families into submitting their loved ones to such tests under fear of sending them to labor camps.
According to reports, human participants were forcibly brought to a location known as Hospital 83 to participate in a number of tests while being discreetly given sleeping medications.
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Women Were subjected To Inhumane Conditions
Those with disabilities, especially those who are dwarfed, are also denied their human rights and subjected to medical operations without their choice.
In 2017, alleged coercion of a dwarf woman to have a hysterectomy, which is a surgical procedure to remove the womb and prevent pregnancy.
It was claimed that widespread state-led rights violations, such as public executions, torture, and arbitrary detentions, had occurred in local communities, prison camps, and other locations.
Inhumane treatment of women in detention included torture, forced labor, sexual assault, and hunger.
According to the South Korean ministry, killings and torture were frequently witnessed in detention facilities, and some inmates were summarily executed after being apprehended while attempting to cross the border.
The Unification Ministry identified eleven political jail camps, five of which are still active.
The analysis conducted by the ministry suggests that North Korean residents’ right to life is in grave danger.
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