North Korea publicly executes 9 men and women by firing squad... Reason: "For selling beef"
Ahead of UN North Korea Human Rights Resolution Plenary Session
9 People Publicly Executed for Selling Beef
It has been reported that nine men and women were publicly executed in North Korea for selling beef. As economic difficulties worsened amid the COVID-19 situation, it is interpreted that the regime resorted to terror politics to control public sentiment. With the North Korea human rights resolution scheduled to be discussed at the upcoming UN General Assembly plenary session next week, this incident is seen as a reflection of North Korea's oppressive human rights issues.
On the 13th, Daily NK Japan and the US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that a brutal public execution took place around 4 p.m. on August 30th in an open area near the airfield in Hyesan City, North Korea. The defendants, who were brought before a special military tribunal of the North Korean army, included seven men and two women, totaling nine people.
They were accused of selling 2,100 cattle that had died from disease between 2017 and February of this year. Among them were the head of the veterinary quarantine office in Yanggang Province, a salesperson at the Yanggang Province commercial management office, a farm official, a manager of a restaurant in Pyongyang, and a university student who served as a soldier at the Guard Command’s checkpoint No. 10 during military service.
In North Korea, it is rare for ordinary people to have beef on their tables. Cattle are defined not as food but as agricultural means of production. Accordingly, the North Korean authorities prohibit individuals from owning, slaughtering, or selling cattle. Violations are treated not as simple economic crimes but as political offenses.
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Meanwhile, on the 15th of last month, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted a European Union (EU) resolution criticizing human rights violations by North Korea without a vote. The North Korea human rights resolution, adopted consecutively for 19 years since 2005, will be submitted to the UN General Assembly plenary session this month.
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