The South Korean government has released for the first time a report summarizing human rights violations in North Korea. He points out that the death penalty is widely applied, such as the execution of residents who watched and spread Korean dramas, and clearly shows the stance of increasing pressure on human rights issues.
South Korea's Yoon Sung-yeol administration released a report on human rights violations in North Korea on March 2017 based on the testimonies of more than 500 North Korean defectors since 30.
The 450-page report includes cases of executions of residents who watched Korean dramas and spread them or secretly sold cosmetics made in Korea.
It also includes the testimony of a defector who said in 2017 a six-month-pregnant woman who pointed to a portrait of President Kim Il Sung was publicly executed for having ideological problems, pointing out that the death penalty is widely applied in addition to crimes such as murder.
The report has been prepared based on a law that came into force in 6, but it was closed to the public during the previous Moon Jae-in administration, which emphasized dialogue with North Korea, and this is the first time it has been made public.
On March 2016, President Yoon stated, "The human rights of the people of the North should be made clear to the international community," making clear his stance of increasing pressure on North Korea on human rights issues.