Another Public Execution in North Korea

On the March 30, in Hyesan, Yangkang Province, three residents were publicly executed and 30 households were forcibly expelled after a public trial. Aggravated uneasiness and growing horror spread among residents.

“Three residents were executed for human trafficking at a vacant lot in the Hyesan Airport while a crowd watched,” a source from Yangkang Province told Daily NK. [Daily NK]

If the people of North Korea were better armed, the Chinese and North Korean authorities might have to consider alternatives to brutality. If the North Korean people can’t survive without crossing the border and risk execution if they do cross it, then shooting back seems a lot less risky in the grander scheme of things.